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

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

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

Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.

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