Philosophy Quotes

"In culture, we find both the universal and the particular."

"Every society must solve certain fundamental problems."

"The anthropologist must be both observer and participant."

"In culture, the material and the symbolic are deeply intertwined."

"In every culture, we find both reason and mystery."

"Culture is the bridge between nature and consciousness."

"In culture, we find both constraint and possibility."

"Culture is the mechanism through which societies maintain and transform themselves."

"In every society, culture creates both unity and diversity."

"The patterns of culture reflect the patterns of human experience."

"In culture, we find the answers to the questions of existence."

"In every culture, there is a solution and a question."

"We are not thinking unless we are thinking about differences."

"There is no such thing as objective experience; all knowledge is filtered through perception."

"The individual mind is immanent, but not only in the body; it is immanent in pathways and messages outside the body."

"The self is that which is not self."

"Consciousness is the universe knowing itself through us."

"To be human is to be a pattern-seeking creature in a pattern-filled universe."

"The self emerges through relationship with the not-self."

"What we call reality is the intersection of observed pattern and observer expectation."

"Ritual and ceremony are not primitive remnants but essential expressions of human solidarity and meaning."

"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime, within man is the soul of the whole."

"Philosophy is the love of wisdom, and wisdom is the application of truth."

"We cannot understand a practice by isolating it from its social context."

"Philosophy is the love of wisdom and truth."

"Philosophy teaches us how to live well."

"One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all."

"Language shapes how we perceive and interact with reality."

"Human societies are neither primitive nor advanced, merely different."

"To understand a culture is to understand the logic of its choices."