Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.
James G. FrazerThe 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.
James G. FrazerThe 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.
James G. FrazerSmall minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.
James G. Frazer