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James G Frazer Quotes

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Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves  (James G Frazer Quotes) 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.  (James G Frazer Quotes) The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method  (James G Frazer Quotes) The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man  (James G Frazer Quotes) Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study  (James G Frazer Quotes) If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime  (James G Frazer Quotes) 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  (James G Frazer Quotes) 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  (James G Frazer Quotes) For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion  (James G Frazer Quotes) The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative  (James G Frazer Quotes) 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 back  (James G Frazer Quotes) The world cannot live at the level of its great men  (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 and of human life  (James G Frazer Quotes) 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 the physical contact has been severed  (James G Frazer Quotes) The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux  (James G Frazer Quotes) 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 generalization from his appearances in the past  (James G Frazer Quotes) The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes  (James G Frazer Quotes) In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings  (James G Frazer Quotes) This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages  (James G Frazer Quotes) The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being  (James G Frazer Quotes) Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life  (James G Frazer Quotes)