I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time

There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party

No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.

The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be