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

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.

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.

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.

Lily, the next time you tell me you don't know what to do with family. Because you know exactly. It's about loyalty and kindness and unconditional love, and you are more than capable of all that.

If I’m going down, I’m going down with lipstick on.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

... reason accepts no commandments.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.

If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.