The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.

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.

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.

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.

May you find the strength to pursue your dreams.

You know, maybe we don't need enemies.""Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.

Passion makes every detail important.

No one knows who the real me is, so I can be a hundred different kinds of me.

All we do is to rise and to fall; and in between these two activities, we sleep!

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

I've never been a teacher in my life.