Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.
I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.
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.
In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.
The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.
With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.
The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.
Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.
The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.
We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.
Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world.