Occupation: Anthropologist Birth: January 26, 1884 Death: February 4, 1939
What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes..
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental mean….
Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxic….
Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations..