Quotes from James G. Frazer

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

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.

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 world cannot live at the level of its great men.