Philosophy Quotes

"Egalitarianism, taken to extremes, destroys the foundations of order."

"The person is always a social person, never truly solitary."

"Modernity has traded wisdom for efficiency."

"Individualism is a ideology, not a law of nature."

"The sacred-secular divide reflects a distinctly modern anxiety."

"Society precedes and shapes the individual consciousness."

"Hierarchy reflects the structure of meaning itself."

"The modern world mistakes quantity of choice for quality of meaning."

"The ideology of the market colonizes all domains of human life."

"Egalitarianism seeks to deny what hierarchy seeks to affirm."

"Personhood emerges through relationships, not in isolation."

"Modern society atomizes what tradition held together."

"The individual consciousness is always already social consciousness."

"Hierarchy orders society as gravity orders the cosmos."

"Society is both constraint and enablement for the individual."

"The modern dream of the self-made individual is a dangerous illusion."

"Value hierarchies are not impositions but expressions of social order."

"The distinction between the sacred and the profane is not given in nature; it is constructed by society."

"Ritual is a means of performing the required action in the prescribed manner."

"Culture is not a thing; it is a way of organizing human experience."

"The meaning of a symbol lies not in the symbol itself, but in its use within a social context."

"The incest taboo is universal, yet its application is culturally specific."

"Myth and ritual are complementary; one explains what the other enacts."

"The boundary between nature and culture is where anthropology lives."

"The so-called primitive mind is not primitive at all; it is differently structured."

"Every society creates enemies in order to define itself."

"The study of religion must be the study of ritual, not belief."

"Cosmology and social structure are mirror images of each other."

"The exotic is simply the familiar seen from an unfamiliar angle."

"Symbols do not represent reality; they construct it."