"With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art."

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Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

James G. Frazer

#Religious Quotes #Art Quotes #Prayer Quotes

“If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.”

Source : Statement to House of Commons: Declaration of War with Germany, August 4, 1914.
“I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that's not relevant.”
“The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before.”
“Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.”

Source : Reynolds Price (1998). “Clear Pictures: First Loves First Guides”, p.100, Simon and Schuster
“I don't have a lot of stomach for people who don't show up to a set knowing their lines because you're keeping 150 people waiting.”
“It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.”
“I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.”
“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”

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