This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages

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.

She blows kisses to the one who danced through her dreams and leaves a trail of moon dust on her heart...

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

The point is ISIL leaders cannot hide. And our next message to them is simple - you are next.

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

I've been a survivor my whole life...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Muhammad Ali.

Maybe we should all just listen to records and quit our jobs

I am definitely an individual.

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.

You did not mention the name of some rich millionaire just by saving anywhere

Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.