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.

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.

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.

Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft, Why fall ye thus before a little wind?

Joyful gratitude creates a happy life.

When the ocean get poisoned even a sip will be deadly

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.

Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!

Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.

The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another.

I'm spiritual! You know what spiritual means! Me and God has a good relationship. I'm in tune with the universe, the sun, moon, and stars. I'm in tune with the jinns that are all around us.

I enjoy hitting a batsman more than getting him out. I like to see blood on the pitch. And I've been training on whisky.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.