Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the principles… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
