"Magic enables man to carry out with confidence……" — Bronislaw Malinowski
"Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the throes of hate, of unrequited love, of despair and anxiety. The function of magic is to ritualize man's optimism, to enhance his faith in the victory of hope over fear. Magic expresses the greater value for man of confidence over doubt, of steadfastness over vacillation, of optimism over pessimism."
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Bronislaw Malinowski
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11 Quotes by Bronislaw Malinowski
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Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up…
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There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any…
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In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem…
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The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station,…
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You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a…
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No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in…
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The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and…
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[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.
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An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are…
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The time when we could tolerate accounts presenting us the native as a distorted, childish charicature of a human being…
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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