James G. Frazer Quotes
Best Quotes by James G. Frazer
“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.”
The Golden Bough 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.”
“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.”
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“The people of this country greatly prize linen cloth; as they gave us much copper in exchange for shirts, if we desired it. These people have dried gourds in which they carry sea water to the interior, where they place it in pools, and thus obtain salt.”