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

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.

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.

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.

Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed with the crime and the problems, and it could be some sinister plot.

Super fidelity requires constant investment and discipline, but great companies know how to do that.

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all.

Stop thinking for once in your life!

Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.