The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or… — Joseph Sittler Copy Share Image
Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous… — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image
Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from… — Horace Copy Share Image
The world is changing. We're not really proceeding on a stationary basis. — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way… — Max Born Copy Share Image
The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors. — Joey Lauren Adams Copy Share Image
In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
This transformation is already proceeding, and if we want to consciously find these evolutionary currents operating in our own being as well-if… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
There is something servile in the interpretation of sin as crime which infringes the will of God and calls for legal proceedings… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
To the Everlasting Father, And the Son who made us free And the Spirit, God proceeding From them Each eternally, Be salvation,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous; and if well watched in their proceedings, they will… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
They [policemen] are in a profession that if you do the job incorrectly, or proceeding incorrectly, it's over for you because there… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image