democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

The indiscreet questioner - and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man's duty either to the community or to any individual to answer - is a marauder, and there is every excuse for treating him as such.

I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.

Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.