If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.

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.

I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make cinema that stands on its feet. I have to treat it like that. It has to be life and death stakes.

Fall if you will, but rise you must.

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.

Now all the bums is wondering where I be's at -if you ain't a barbie it's none of your freaking beeswax!!!

True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.