Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.

I am the place in which something has occurred.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Animals are good to think with.

HAMM:Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?NAGG:I didn't know.HAMM:What? What didn't you know?NAGG:That it'd be you.(Pause.)

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

There can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from the home.

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.

Germany must have her place in the sun.