117 quotes
Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.
Murder? Don't talk to me about murder. I invented murder!
Swamp Thing (1983)
The whole program of evolution seems to be to diversify, because in diversity there is strength.
And if you apply that on a social level, then you get something like anarchy.
Alan Moore on Anarchism (2009)
It’s only science that cannot consider thought as a real event, and science is not reality. It’s a map of reality, and not a very good one. It’s good, it’s useful, but it has its limits.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
This shows the lengths that hard science will go to to banish the ghost from the machine.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Reality, at first glance, is a simple thing: the television speaking to you now is real.
The Joker: Do you know how many times we've come close to world war three over a flock of geese on a computer screen?
What occultism needs is someone to open the window, it’s too stuffy and it smells.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
I am unlikely to start believing that this glove puppet created the universe.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
The schizophrenic is probably having exactly the same experience as the magician but has no context in which to understand it.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
You come along, if you don’t think it’s magical, that’s fine.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
You can’t have an official set of rules for anarchy.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
The more I look at most of the art movements, it’s all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
I think there is too much darkness in magic.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
This is an imaginary story... aren't they all?
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? (1986)
Consciousness is unquantifiable, a ghost in the machine, barely considered real at all, though in a sense this flickering mosaic of awareness is the only true reality that we can ever know.
All our scientific observations of the universe and quanta can only, in the end, be observations of ourselves.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
I can understand why magicians have such a high insanity rate. We don’t end well, most of us, it has to be said.
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Ancient cultures did not worship idols. Their god-statues represented ideal states which, when meditated constantly upon, one might aspire to.
A god is the idea of a god. The idea of a god is a god.
De Abaitua interview (1998)