“Experience, contrary to common belief, is mostly imagination.” — Ruth Benedict Belief Copy Share Image
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation. — Ruth Benedict Believe Copy Share Image
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. — Ruth Benedict Dies Copy Share Image
Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude. — Ruth Benedict Character Copy Share Image
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. — Ruth Benedict Anthropology Copy Share Image
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his… — Ruth Benedict Community Copy Share Image
Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. — Ruth Benedict Community Copy Share Image
“Such men will never know the added love of their culture which comes from a knowledge of other ways of life.” — Ruth Benedict Culture Copy Share Image
The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. — Ruth Benedict Crucial Copy Share Image
“The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, but that there are so many answers” — Ruth Benedict Answer Copy Share Image
Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other. — Ruth Benedict Anglo saxon Copy Share Image
The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training. — Ruth Benedict Body Copy Share Image
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude. — Ruth Benedict Character Copy Share Image
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some… — Ruth Benedict Behalf Copy Share Image
In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the… — Ruth Benedict Brotherhood Copy Share Image
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people… — Ruth Benedict Baby Copy Share Image
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only… — Ruth Benedict Adequate Copy Share Image
Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races… — Ruth Benedict Able Copy Share Image
Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is… — Ruth Benedict Achieve Copy Share Image
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war… — Ruth Benedict Bears Copy Share Image
The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable,… — Ruth Benedict Adaptable Copy Share Image
An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local… — Ruth Benedict Able Copy Share Image
The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on… — Ruth Benedict Conditions Copy Share Image
Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even… — Ruth Benedict Analysis Copy Share Image
The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able… — Ruth Benedict Able Copy Share Image
... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it… — Ruth Benedict Business Copy Share Image
... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding of that country… — Ruth Benedict Appeals Copy Share Image
The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion… — Ruth Benedict Accounts Copy Share Image
So much of the trouble is because I am a woman. To me it seems a very terrible thing to be a… — Ruth Benedict Careers Copy Share Image
liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others. — Ruth Benedict Freedom Copy Share Image
As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use. — Ruth Benedict Art Copy Share Image
Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital… — Ruth Benedict Destined Copy Share Image
It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without… — Ruth Benedict Breaths Copy Share Image
Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power. — Ruth Benedict Advantage Copy Share Image
It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the… — Ruth Benedict Different Copy Share Image
