“I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.” Quote by James G. Frazer
“In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has hardly begun, every man is more or less his own magician; he practices charms and incantations for his own good and the injury of his enemies.” MenCommunityEnemyClassPracticeWorkersVariousEvery ManCharmInjuryOccupationPrimitiveDistributionMagicianUniformity Author:James G. Frazer
“The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.” FactsSeemsAcceptingFitApproachHypothesisTestingNever EndingRejecting Author:James G. Frazer
“In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.” FactsKingsChiefsMagician Author:James G. Frazer
“With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.” ArtBlackReligiousPrayerLevelsMagicSacrificeEqualAssumingBackgroundsRitualReligious RitualsBlack Art Author:James G. Frazer
“Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.” MenCreaturesMortalsPredicaments Author:James G. Frazer
“Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.” MenSacrificeProveUselessHonour Author:James G. Frazer
“In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful portion of mankind that the alterations of summer and winter, of spring and autumn, were not merely the result of their own magical rites, but that some deeper cause, some mightier power, was at work behind the shifting scenes of nature.” CoursesCausesResultsBehindsMankindSceneSummerSpringIllusionWinterDeeperConvincedThoughtfulAutumnPortionsShiftingRiteAlterationsSummer And Winter Author:James G. Frazer
“If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.” IfsLongWiseMankindCrimeFollyLogicalChronicles Author:James G. Frazer
“Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.” StudyInfluenceSubjectsDevelopmentSympathetic Author:James G. Frazer
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” InspirationalGivingLittlesSelfHelpingMotivationalGivenStuffChallengesKindnessPhilosophicalSocial JusticeCharityPossessionHelping OthersGenerosityProphetMaking A DifferenceReceivingPhilanthropyVolunteerGiving BackPossessingCharitableVolunteerismPhilanthropicDonationGiving InGiving And ReceivingDonateSpiritual LoveGiving To CharityCharity And GivingGenerosity And KindnessKindness GenerosityInspirational CharityGiving To OthersGenerosity And GivingGift GivingSelf GivingGiving LoveGiving YourselfPhilanthropy GivingDeeds DoneGiving HelpPhilanthropy InspirationYou Make A DifferenceYour GenerosityHoliday GivingLittle HelpOrgan DonationOthers Helping YouTruenessGenerosity Of SpiritSeason Of GivingCharitable GivingGifts And GivingPrized PossessionsVolunteers Making A DifferenceGood SpiritualGive It All You GotGiving Blood Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet