Catherine Crowe Quotes

• A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

  Catherine Crowe

  Age, Impossible, Unfaithful

  Catherine Crowe (1850). “The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers”, p.205

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• I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh re spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh.

  Catherine Crowe

  Pensamiento, Ideas, Sería

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• What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.

  Catherine Crowe

  Past, Men, Heaven

  Catherine Crowe (1854). “The Night Side of Nature: Or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers”, p.498

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• The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our instincts believe the former; so that, out of this education, we retain the terror, and just believe enough to make it very troublesome whenever we are placed in circumstances that awaken it.

  Catherine Crowe

  Children, Believe, Understanding

  Catherine Crowe (1850). “The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers”, p.174

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