No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on 'Reelin' In The Years'.

In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.

A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.

The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.