Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom

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

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

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

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

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