All James G. Frazer Quotes
- By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature… Believed
- The world cannot live at the level of its great men. Cannot Live
- The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after… Act
- It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get… Common
- The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a… Abstract
- The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative. Affirmative
- The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. Amongst
- The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux. Ceaseless
- Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by… Abstract
- Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the… Alike
- Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. Cannot Grasp