Occupation: Anthropologist Birth: June 5, 1887 Death: September 17, 1948
The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races..
In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participat….
Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it..
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers..
What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common..
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers..
War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait..
Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the threshold of his….
As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use..
No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled ot….
The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adapt….
We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behav….
I haven't strength of mind not to need a career..
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world..
The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditio….
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine..
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.