"Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value of all forms of culture, and thus serves as a check to an exaggerated valuation of the standpoint of our own period, which we are only too liable to consider the ultimate goal of human evolution, thus depriving ourselves of the benefits to be gained from the teachings of other cultures and hindering an objective criticism of our own work."

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Franz Boas

#Teaching Quotes #Other Cultures Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“For me the grotesque is necessary to understand beauty,”
“I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way. Studying psychology helped me out in terms of my understanding. I still look through my old textbooks when I'm in need of inspiration.”
“When something isn't coming my way, I believe it was not meant for me.”
“I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.”
“3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell.”

Source : "Frank Miller: Occupy Wall Street ‘Louts, Thieves & Rapists,’ Comic Writer Says". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2011.
“Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?”

Source : John William Draper (1973). “Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy”, Ayer Co Pub
“I sing a bit and play guitar.”
“You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.”

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