Malinowski Quotes

#1. Like a lot of people in the computer industry, Keith Malinowski had spent his whole life being the smartest person in the room, and like most of his fellows the experience left him with a rather high opinion of his opinions.

Rick Cook

#2. Myth safeguards and enforces morality, as Malinowski proclaimed, and if there are no myths there will be no morality.

Rollo May

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever. But

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#7. [W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

Bronislaw Malinowski

#8. I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.

Bronislaw Malinowski

#9. Muses have bullwhips and aren't afraid to use them, just sayin

E.T. Malinowski

#10. 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

#11. Is there love without an action? No! Love is an active word.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. ...yesterday, returning from Wawela I had some ethnological ideas, but I can't remember what they were.

Bronislaw Malinowski

#15. Are you a stingy breather? Well, don't be. Be extravagant with you breathing and come fully alive.

Ron Fletcher

#16. If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down.

Laurie Helgoe

#17. I wanted to write in film or something like that. I thought acting was an embarrassing thing to say you wanted to do, especially when you're young. It seemed really uncool.

Max Minghella

#18. Pretend-dating Gray Porter is going to be like pretend-dating a rainbow. Everyone looks at him all the time.

Anne Eliot