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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.”

“The world cannot live at the level of its great men.”