Animism Quote by Graham Harvey

“Some modern Pagans claim to be staunchly apolitical, seeing radical Paganism as a highly unwelcome trend that corrupts religion by mixing it with politics.…

— Christopher Scott Thompson

Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving…

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality,…

— Emma Restall Orr

Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human, and that life is always loved…

— Graham Harvey

Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things.

— Daniel Quinn

Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human.

— Graham Harvey

When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated.

— Joseph R. Bartlett

The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater…

— Herman Melville

Paganism is the worship of life itself in its supreme mysteries of ecstasy and love.

— Jane Ellen Harrison

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from…

— H. P. Lovecraft

For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can…

— Brendan Myers

I consider myself a pagan and a witch.

— Matt Skiba