Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional they are sceptical and mystical they are romantic and ironic they are cruel and tender and full of mirth and despair.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that throughout the ages has blended superstition trickery and religion.

Mysticism poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else poetry in terms of psychology.