Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough Quotes

“When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough

“Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough

“Ich muss immer wieder im Wasser des Zweifels unterauchen”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Mythology in Our Language: Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough