It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.

Age affects how people experience time.

Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.

Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.