Meriwether Lewis
Explorer, Author
"As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end."
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Enchantment
53 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Playwright, Poet
"Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced."
Emily Dickinson
Poet
"The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Whoever is devoid of the capacity to wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment, might just as well be dead for he has already closed his eyes upon life."
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"Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved."
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"Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced."
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"[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment."
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"The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment."
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"Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments."
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"The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning."
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"The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery."
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"Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings."
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"The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition."
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"She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments."
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"They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil."
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"He’s gone, Harry told himself. He’s gone. He had to keep thinking it as he washed and dressed, as though repetition would dull the shock of it. He’s gone and he’s not coming back. And that was the simple truth of it, Harry knew, because their protective enchantments meant that it would be impossible, once they vacated this spot, for Ron to find them again."
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"I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me."
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"If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance."
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"That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood."
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