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"Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past."
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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
"But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do."
"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still."
"We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order."
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
Explore more quotes by James G. Frazer
"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 moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux."
"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."
"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."
"Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past."
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