The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.

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.

A good friend is a healing friend.

Except heaven is a hope, and eden is a memory .

To write, ” Marguerite Duras remarked, “is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.

And in uttering thatExcellently executed truthYou become an artist too

No. You know this is wrong and you want to feel better about it. You don't want to admit your as ruthless and monstrous as the demons you claim to hate.

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.

The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it's also the first to be replaced.

Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.

You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.