Philosophy Quotes

"Dualism is at the heart of Hindu thought and practice."

"Anthropology is a moral enterprise that demands self-examination."

"Language shapes thought; thought shapes society."

"The sacred and profane divide all human societies."

"We are all captive to our own cultural categories."

"The sacred is not the opposite of the rational; it is another form of meaning."

"The individual is embedded in networks of obligation and reciprocity."

"The profane world depends upon the sacred for its meaning."

"The sacred and the profane structure all human experience."

"The individual is a mask we wear, not our true self."

"The profane world is illuminated by the sacred."

"The sacred cannot be reduced to the psychological or the social."

"The profane depends on the sacred for coherence."

"The sacred is present in what we call the ordinary."

"If we regard human beings as machines, we can have no morality."

"Ritual, which is a means to an end, must be respected as an end in itself."

"Modernism is a secular religion."

"The sacred and the profane are not opposites but categories of understanding."

"Culture is a system of meanings and symbols."

"We are imprisoned by our own categories of thought."

"Meaning is not found but created through human interaction."

"Ritual action has power independent of belief."

"The sacred is socially constructed."

"Ritual gives structure to formless experience."

"We cannot step outside our culture to view it objectively."

"Ritual is a rehearsal for the performance of life."

"The sacred and profane are modes of human experience, not objective categories."

"We are products of society, yet we produce society."

"The study of other cultures is ultimately the study of ourselves."

"Society exists because we believe it exists."