"The world, in truth, is a wedding." — Erving Goffman

"The world, in truth, is a wedding."

— Erving Goffman

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14 Quotes by Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.
The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to…
Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he…
Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.
Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful,…
A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which…
Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood…
All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy…
The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.
Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even…
And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can…

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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