Top 16 Bronislaw Malinowski Quotes
#1. ...yesterday, returning from Wawela I had some ethnological ideas, but I can't remember what they were.
Bronislaw Malinowski
#2. It is not easy to watch the world change around you. To see an entire way of life change and change and change again. It isn't easy to watch friends grown old and die, nor is it easy to be constantly moving on from place to place before people begin to wonder why you never age.
Michael Scott
#3. The right way to collaborate, I think, is to divide projects into sharply defined modules, each with a definite owner,
Paul Graham
#4. The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.
Bronislaw Malinowski
#5. There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races lacking in either the scientific attitude, or in science, though this lack has been frequently attributed to them.
Bronislaw Malinowski
#6. she pulled out her cell and punched in their number, one of the few she knew by heart and the absolute easiest to dial.
Barbara Delinsky
#7. An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act ... You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.
Bronislaw Malinowski
#8. I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.
Bronislaw Malinowski
#9. [W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.
Bronislaw Malinowski
#10. Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies and ritual. Man resorts to magic only where chance and circumstances are not fully controlled by knowledge.
Bronislaw Malinowski
#11. The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view,
his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.
Bronislaw Malinowski
#12. I always strive for freedom: freedom of thought and expression.
Lykke Li
#13. The rule that science is the only way to know something is itself unscientific; it cannot be tested. So the claim
that only science can demonstrate truth actually flunks its own test, since it cannot validate itself!
Gary R. Habermas
#14. I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!
Kristin Scott Thomas
#15. Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant revelation of their wonder-working power. They both are surrounded by taboos and observances which mark off their acts from those of the profane world.
Bronislaw Malinowski
