James G. Frazer Quote Explained: In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.

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The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being.

Anthropologist

· Scotland

Sin

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

Anthropologist

· Scotland

Hair
Logic

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Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

- James G. Frazer

Anthropologist

· Scotland

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The world cannot live at the level of its great men.

- James G. Frazer

Anthropologist

· Scotland

Levels

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The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

- James G. Frazer

Anthropologist

· Scotland

Suffering

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

- James G. Frazer

Anthropologist

· Scotland

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This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages

- James G. Frazer

Anthropologist

· Scotland

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

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

The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being.

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

Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

The world cannot live at the level of its great men.

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

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

This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. Explain

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest.

Humankind’s chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men’s hovels and king’s palaces.

Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains.

In fact, most good television is better than most movies that are out.

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

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

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