Occupation: Anthropologist Birth: June 28, 1905 Death: November 26, 1999
Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading..
No one should be required to see America for the first time..
The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken..
The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind..
The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time..
For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value..
The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings o….
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us..
The idea is to die young as late as possible..
The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask what they believe….
Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as ….
Hatred is love frustrated..
Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainme….
... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love..
Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of ce….
Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough..
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know….
It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being..
In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message..
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality..
Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim forever an….