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"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
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"If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African."
"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."
"Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top."
"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."
"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities."
"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."
"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
"Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beingsas men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races."
"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."
"Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save the Eskimo) sanction at least one such plant and, just as invariably, strenuously forbid certain others. Along with the temptation seems to come the taboo."
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"What is more, we cannot do morality a worse service than by seeing to derive it from examples. Every example of it presented to me must first itself be judged by moral principles in order to decide if it is fit to serve as an original example...even the Holy One of the gospel must first be compared with our ideal of moral perfection before we can recognize him to be such."
"Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end."
"It must be freely admitted that there is a sort of circle here from which it seems impossible to escape. In the order of efficient causes we assume ourselves free, in order that in the order of ends we may conceive ourselves as subject to these laws because we have attributed to ourselves freedom of will; for freedom and self-legislation of will are both autonomy..."
"Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled."
"But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience."
"The sight of a being who is not adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity, can never give pleasure to an impartial rational spectator. Thus a good will appears to constitute the indispensable condition even of being worthy of happiness."
"Human reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible wrong ways before it succeeded in finding the one true way."
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