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Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.
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Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.
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Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.
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Language is a form of human reason, and has its reasons which are unknown to man.
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Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
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The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
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The truths which we seek so far afield only become valid when we have separated them from this dross.
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One must be very naïve or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation.
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Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization.
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These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.
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With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.
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We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are "good to eat" but because they are "good to think."
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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
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The entire village left the next day in about thirty canoes, leaving us alone with the women and children in the abandoned houses.
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Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
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Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.
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The purpose of myth is to provide a logical model capable of overcoming a contradiction (an impossible achievement if, as it happens, the contradiction is real).
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No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.
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Adventure has no place in the anthropologists profession; it is merely one of those unavoidable drawbacks, which detract from his effective work through the incidental loss of weeks or month.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
November 28, 1908
Died:
October 30, 2009
(aged 100)
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