The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough.

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.

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

I will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath.

The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.

Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple.

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

We've all been should upon enough.

For one half second, I wondered what it would feel like to put my hand in the fire. What it would feel like when I burned.

A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.