Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or hand:
“A black pall, you know, with a silver cross on it, or R.I.P.requiescat in paceyou know. That seems to me the most beautiful expressionI like it much better than He is a jolly good fellow, which is simply rowdy.”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)
“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”
—Ernst Cassirer (18741945)
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