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

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.

The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

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

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

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 question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

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.

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

You're a kid, ' said Alexandra. 'There is no just about it. Only adults say just a kid and what the heck do they know about anything? Have you looked at their world lately?

He was a specialist in Feng Shui; that is to say, he was consulted as to the correct ubication and orientation of houses and temples, in relation to the spirits of wind and water.

There's nothing more special than talking in your community, and using your celebrity to uplift people and help them.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.

I'm proud to be associated with the liberation of Assata Shakur.

Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.

When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.

There is another world, but it is in this one.

Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.