James G. Frazer Citas

• The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.

  James G. Frazer

  Goal, Infinite, Progression

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

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• Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

  James G. Frazer

  Ideas, Mente, Visión

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

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• Segundo principio de la magia: las cosas que han estado en contacto siguen actuando a distancia una vez roto el contacto físico.

  James G. Frazer

  Distance, Magic, Principles

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• From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; the false are magic.

  James G. Frazer

  Arte, Hombres, Orden

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

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• El mundo no puede vivir al nivel de sus grandes hombres.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, World, Levels

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

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• 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.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, Predicaments, Creatures

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

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• Es norma común entre los pueblos primitivos no despertar a un durmiente, porque su alma está lejos y puede que no tenga tiempo de volver.

  James G. Frazer

  Science, People, Soul

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

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• The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, Race, Afterlife

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• For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.

  James G. Frazer

  Strong, Thinking, Magic

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

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• If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.

  James G. Frazer

  Wise, Long, Crime

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

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• In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful portion of mankind that the alterations of summer and winter, of spring and autumn, were not merely the result of their own magical rites, but that some deeper cause, some mightier power, was at work behind the shifting scenes of nature.

  James G. Frazer

  Verano, primavera, otoño

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

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• 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.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, Religion, Human Life

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

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• In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.

  James G. Frazer

  Kings, Facts, Chiefs

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

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• For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.

  James G. Frazer

  Sacrifice, Criminals, Doe

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

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• 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.

  James G. Frazer

  Facts, Fit, Accepting

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

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• Con el avance del conocimiento, por lo tanto, la oración y el sacrificio asumen el lugar principal en el ritual religioso; y la magia, que una vez se clasificó con ellos como un igual legítimo, se relega gradualmente a un segundo plano y se hunde al nivel de un arte negro.

  James G. Frazer

  Religious, Art, Prayer

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

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• In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has hardly begun, every man is more or less his own magician; he practices charms and incantations for his own good and the injury of his enemies.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, Practice, Class

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

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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.

  James G. Frazer

  Past, Ideas, Recognition

  "Complexity and the Arrow of Time". Book by Charles H. Lineweaver, Paul C. W. Davies, and Michael Ruse, p. 243, 2013.

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• El hombre de ciencia, como el hombre de letras, es demasiado propenso a ver a la humanidad sólo en abstracto, seleccionando en su consideración sólo un lado de nuestro complejo y polifacético ser.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, Views, Two Sides

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• Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.

  James G. Frazer

  Israel, Law, Atheism

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• Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.

  James G. Frazer

  Dream, Strong, Powerful

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• I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, Hair, Logic

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

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• Pero una vez que se es tonto, siempre se es tonto, y cuanto mayor sea el poder en sus manos, más desastroso será el uso que haga de él. La mayor calamidad de la historia inglesa, la ruptura con América, podría no haber ocurrido nunca si Jorge III no hubiera sido un honesto necio.

  James G. Frazer

  Hands, English History, America

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

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• The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron.

  James G. Frazer

  Past, Iron, Savages

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

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• The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method.

  James G. Frazer

  Inspire, Cheerful, Splendor

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

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