#anthropology

You are not Flesh & Blood – You are the Master of It” - Drø the Finder – ↗

— H.D. Rennerfeldt

#inspirational #spiritual #inspirational

Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them. ↗

— Robert James Waller

#economics #marketing #politics #science #art

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#aspects #developed #existence #holistic #human

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#differences #human #make #purpose #safe

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#anthropology #before #bible #decision #existential

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt it in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#inspirational-life #philosophy #family

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old? ↗

— Margaret Mead

#insight #psychology #love

Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction? Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was "A Reconsideration of the Evidence for Cannibalism at the Krapina Neandertal Site." That was a big hit. And who could ever forget "Cutmarks on the Engis II Calvarium"? Then there was "Browridge Development as a Function of Bending Stress in the Supraorbital Region." I got tons of reprint requests for that one. Trust me fiction is better. ↗

— Mary Doria Russell

#humor #interviews #science #humor

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#acting #acting class #anthropology #class #courses

The soul is a mystery. Scientists and Theologians constantly butt heads on the soul’s definitive and can’t come to grips with its purpose and actual existence. Yet, the basic framework taught in a High School physics class helps with an explanation of the latter - the existence of the soul. ↗

— H.D. Rennerfeldt

#science-vs-religion #souls #religion