Anthropology Quote by Samuel Beckett

“I would next like to work in anthropology; for here, if I may say so, I believe I have much to contribute-indeed, I believe…

— Evan Dara

In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science,…

— Martin Buber

“Man is the only animal that strives to be more than he is…it is the indomitable spirit within that makes him human.”

— Steven Lang

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact…

— Francis Bacon

“The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you couldn't see…

— Paul La Farge

“The essence of humanism is that belief of which he seems never to have doubted, that nothing which has ever interested living men and…

— Walter Pater

“We cannot define ourselves without negating the alternatives that we do not become.”

— William Barrett

“Just as there is no barrier between humans and other beings, neither is there a strict hierarchy. Non-human entities do not exist merely to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos who, despite…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his…

— Francis Bacon

“Humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.”

— Anonymous

“At certain times in history cultures have taken it for granted that a person wasn't fully human unless he or she learned to master…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi