No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled others. Each culture is a system of values which may well complement the values in another.
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation. - Ruth Benedict
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.
- Ruth Benedict
The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. - Ruth Benedict
The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.
We do not see the lens through which we look. - Ruth Benedict
We do not see the lens through which we look.
It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding. - Ruth Benedict
It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.
The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. F… - Ruth Benedict
The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. F…
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women. - Ruth Benedict
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others. - Ruth Benedict
liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. - Ruth Benedict
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. - Ruth Benedict
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
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