Truth Quotes

"Truth is discovered through process"

"In every society, there are secret gardens of meaning we must learn to enter."

"Words have power because communities give them power."

"The boundary between sacred and mundane is drawn differently in each culture and reveals its values."

"Truth in oral traditions is found not in exact words but in the faithful rendering of meaning."

"Drama reveals what structure conceals."

"The fool's role in ritual is to speak truths power cannot silence."

"Ritual reveals the invisible structures that organize social life."

"Performance reveals the constructed nature of social reality."

"Truth emerges through the study of human behavior."

"Truth is stranger than fiction in human behavior."

"The observer changes the observed; objectivity is not the absence of perspective but the honest acknowledgment of it."

"The gap between what we say and what we do reveals the true structure of our beliefs."

"Abnormality is defined by the boundaries we set as normal."

"The margins of society often hold the most interesting truths."

"What we call rational is often deeply embedded in cultural tradition."

"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."

"The problem is that we think we understand the world when we only understand our descriptions of it."

"What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things."

"The savage and the civilized man are separated not by intellect, but by culture and circumstance."

"What appears irrational to the outsider is logic perfectly consistent within the culture."

"The primitive mind is not less complex, merely differently directed than the modern mind."

"Cultural difference is not deficiency but diversity, not hierarchy but plurality."

"What appears as chaos to the outsider is order to those who know the system."

"What we call primitive is often merely different, organized by different principles and toward different ends."

"The custom that seems absurd to the outsider may be essential to the insider's survival."

"Every ritual strips away pretense and returns us to our essential humanity."

"Ritual language speaks truth that cannot be contained in propositional statements."

"In the threshold, we are stripped of pretense and confronted with ultimate questions."

"The sacred fire burns away all that is false, leaving only essential truth."