Anthropology

🇩🇪Carl Jung

Psychology

1852–1924

"You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return."

"Religion as a whole is but a form of loyalty to the interests of English property."

🇫🇷Lucien Lévy-Bruhl

Philosophy

1857–1939

"The primitive mentality is a condition of the human mind, and not a stage in its historical development."

Ibn Khaldun

Economics

1332–1406

"All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing."

🇺🇸Franz Boas

Education

1858–1942

"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."

🇫🇷Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Religion

1881–1955

"The Human Phenomenon Excerpts from the book"

🇺🇸Robert Sapolsky

Science

b. 1957

"From the very moment of your life, culture is leaving an imprint on who you are."

🇬🇧William Jones (philologist)

Mathematics

1746–1794

"Plato drew many of his notions from the sages of Hindustán."

🇺🇸James C. Scott

Science

anarchist anthropology

1936–2024

"As we shall see with urban planning, revolutionary theory, collectivization, and rural resettlement, a whole world lying "outside the brackets" returned to haunt this technical vision."

🇨🇦Steven Erikson

Literature

b. 1959

"— all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims ... for what?"

🇬🇧James Frazer

Literature

1854–1941

"To a modern reader the connexion at first site may not be obvious between the activity of the hangman and the productivity of the earth."

🇩🇪Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

Philosophy

Materialism

1804–1872

"I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood."

"The last bastions of resistance to evolutionary theory are organized religion and cultural anthropology."

🇫🇷Prosper Mérimée

Music

Romanticism

1803–1870

"I would willingly give Thucydides for some authentic memoirs by Aspasia or by a slave of Pericles."

🇫🇷René Girard

Economics

1923–2015

"The God of Christianity isn’t the violent God of archaic religion, but the non-violent God who willingly becomes a victim in order to free us from our violence."

🇺🇸Clifford Geertz

Philosophy

1926–2006

"In the country of the blind, who are not as unobservant as they look, the one-eyed is not king, he is spectator."

🇺🇸Jessica Lynch

Military

b. 1983

"When I remember those difficult days, I remember the fear, I remember the strength, I remember that hand of that fellow American soldier, reassuring me that I was going to be okay."