Ruth Benedict Quote

It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.


An Anthropologist at Work (1959)


It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.

It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.

It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.

It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.