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.

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.

Eye can only see something ifidea about it has been in mind.

When reality was just tilted on an axis, a world continued to spin. This is me.

The present like a note in music is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

To be wise doesn't always mean to have a wrinkled face and sparkly eyes. To be wise means to be still inside.

We will see at the end of the day. I don't like to speculate. Our goal in this election is to do better than in the last one.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure.

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun.