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For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion .
— James G. Frazer
Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.
— James G. Frazer
legend ascribed to the Tauric Diana is familiar to classical readers;
— James George Frazer
The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.
— James G. Frazer
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
Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear
— Denis Waitley
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
The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.
— James G. Frazer
We write to find out what we know and what we want to say.
— William Zinsser
Isn't it too late at night to begin something like this?""Not when one has a dire case of imagine-somnia. — Lisa Kleypas
The world cannot live at the level of its great men.
— James G. Frazer
The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough.
— James G. Frazer
If I am to have faith when I pray, I must find some promise in the Word of God to rest my faith on
— R.A. Torrey
Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.
— 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
The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.
— James G. Frazer
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
— James G. Frazer
THE PRIMARY aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia.
— James George Frazer
Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.
— James George Frazer
The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.
— James G. Frazer
the fear of the human dead, which, on the whole, I believe to have been probably the most powerful force in the making of primitive religion.
— James George Frazer
I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.
— James G. Frazer
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
This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages
— James G. Frazer
To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.
— Aries Spears
