6 Quotes by Lionel Snell about culture

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    We shall see that magic does not deny truth, it positively embraces truth as a crutch to assist belief, but it equall embraces falsehood - and that makes it unacceptable in scientific culture. Magic embraces goodness, but it also embraces evil - and that makes it disreputable in religious eyes. Magic embraces beauty and it also embraces ugliness - and that can make it seem kitsch or 'cheesy' in artistic eyes.

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    Instant gratification is no more essential to magical culture than bigotry to religious culture or psychopathy to science, and yet times of magical revival do go hand in hand with a rise in individualism

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    A distinction was drawn between the scientific use of language - where a word is chosen for the meaning it has - and the magical use of language for the meaning a word conveys or transports

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    Religious culture is the one that defines a game and sets the rules; Scientific culture is the one that tests the rules; Arts culture is the one that breaks the rules; and Magical culture is the one that plays by the rules, but knows it is "just a game".

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    Religion and Science are paths of denial, in the sense that a scientific statement should be one capable of being disproved, while a religious statement should be capable of being disbelieved.

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