Quote

Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.

Edmund Leach

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edmund Leach
Age: 78 †
Born: 1910
Born: November 7
Died: 1989
Died: January 6
Anthropologist
Sidmouth
Devon
Sir Edmund Ronald Leach
Edmund R. Leach
Truth
Sacrifices
Many
Continuity
Images
Sacrifice
Hand
Interest
Overlapping
History
Partial
Hands
Totality

More quotes by Edmund Leach

Image
Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
Edmund Leach
Image
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
Edmund Leach