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Ethnologist Inspirational Quotes (549)

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It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
Claude M. Bristol
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The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.
Michel Foucault
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Questing... is not an ego trip it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
Joseph Campbell
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The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
Joseph Campbell
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say 'yea' to it all.
Joseph Campbell
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When you are falling --- Dive!
Joseph Campbell
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It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.
Joseph Campbell
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When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.
Joseph Campbell
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Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.
Claude M. Bristol
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Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.
Joseph Campbell
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The perfect human being is uninteresting.
Joseph Campbell
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The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day.
Claude M. Bristol
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In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings degeneration. It is not simply that they have been newly built they were built so as to be renewable as quickly as they were put up, that is, badly.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.
Joseph Campbell
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you - a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
Joseph Campbell
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Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations, and becomes merely a manifestation of a language which has no other law than that of affirming in opposition to all other forms of discourse its own precipitous existence.
Michel Foucault
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The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.
Joseph Campbell
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To change something in the minds of people - that's the role of an intellectual.
Michel Foucault
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Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'
Joseph Campbell
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Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.
Joseph Campbell
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The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.
Joseph Campbell
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
Joseph Campbell
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Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom
Edward Sapir
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Awe is what moves us forward.
Joseph Campbell
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