Alterations Quote by James G. Frazer

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

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

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

In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.

— James G. Frazer

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

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

— 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…

— James G. Frazer

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

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

— James G. Frazer

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

For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.

— James G. Frazer

If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.

— James G. Frazer