Franz Boas quote: "Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered."

The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are ra...
FRANZ BOAS

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
FRANZ BOAS

Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding sl...
FRANZ BOAS

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allow...
FRANZ BOAS

In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is sti...
FRANZ BOAS

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due t...
FRANZ BOAS

It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and ...
FRANZ BOAS

In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under t...
FRANZ BOAS

We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an ...
FRANZ BOAS

This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable ac...
FRANZ BOAS

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, ...
FRANZ BOAS

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization
FRANZ BOAS

The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are ra...
FRANZ BOAS

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of m...
FRANZ BOAS

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.
FRANZ BOAS

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.
FRANZ BOAS

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character wi...
FRANZ LISZT

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involve...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
FRANZ KAFKA

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wi...
FRANZ SCHUBERT

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKA

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's ...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER

But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to...
FRANZ KAFKA

The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British E...
FRANZ HALDER

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is w...
FRANZ KAFKA

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
FRANZ KAFKA

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
FRANZ KAFKA

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it ...
FRANZ KAFKA

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates H...
FRANZ KAFKA

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; a...
FRANZ KAFKA

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
FRANZ KAFKA

When I wished to sing of love it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow it was transf...
FRANZ SCHUBERT

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty...
FRANZ KAFKA

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
FRANZ KAFKA

The meaning of life is that it stops.
FRANZ KAFKA

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view,...
FRANZ KAFKA

Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.
FRANZ WERFEL

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
FRANZ WERFEL

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I beca...
FRANZ KAFKA

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to...
FRANZ KAFKA

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty...
FRANZ KAFKA

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
FRANZ KAFKA

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.
FRANZ KAFKA

Si el libro que leemos no nos despierta de un puñetazo en el cráneo, ¿para qué leerlo?… Un lib...
FRANZ KAFKA

The limited circle is pure.
FRANZ KAFKA

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fenci...
FRANZ KAFKA

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
FRANZ KAFKA

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
FRANZ KAFKA

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
FRANZ KAFKA

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, o...
FRANZ KAFKA

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do an...
FRANZ KAFKA

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reac...
FRANZ KAFKA

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
FRANZ KAFKA

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
FRANZ GRILLPARZER

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
FRANZ KAFKA

Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The ...
FRANZ KAFKA

Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.
FRANZ GRILLPARZER

For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to ...
DENNIS FRANZ

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air...
FRANZ KAFKA

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
FRANZ KAFKA

One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.
FRANZ KAFKA

In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and l...
FRANZ KAFKA

This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to obser...
FRANZ KAFKA

I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, t...
FRANZ KAFKA

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
FRANZ KAFKA

I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and ...
DENNIS FRANZ

Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
FRANZ KAFKA

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who c...
FRANZ LISZT

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, sim...
FRANZ KAFKA

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccent...
FRANZ SCHUBERT

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
FRANZ LISZT

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
FRANZ SCHUBERT

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
FRANZ KAFKA

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
FRANZ KAFKA

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
FRANZ KAFKA

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
FRANZ KAFKA

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I...
FRANZ KAFKA

Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and s...
FRANZ MARC

Why does God endow us with compassion?
FRANZ SCHUBERT

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.
FRANZ SCHUBERT

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.
FRANZ SCHUBERT

One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a Fr...
FRANZ SCHUBERT

The moment is supreme.
FRANZ SCHUBERT

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the b...
FRANZ SCHUBERT

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers...
FRANZ SCHUBERT

A man endures misfortune without complaint.
FRANZ SCHUBERT

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon conv...
FRANZ SCHUBERT

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
FRANZ SCHUBERT

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making...
FRANZ SCHUBERT

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
FRANZ SCHUBERT

The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
FRANZ SCHUBERT

There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good lookin...
FRANZ SCHUBERT

Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.
FRANZ SCHUBERT

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reac...
FRANZ SCHUBERT

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth i...
FRANZ SCHUBERT

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
FRANZ SCHUBERT

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you ...
FRANZ SCHUBERT

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was tran...
FRANZ SCHUBERT

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you ...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little ...
FRANZ KAFKA

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
FRANZ KAFKA

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the...
FRANZ MARC

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of o...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER

But perhaps the enthusiastic sensibility of young women of her age also played a role. This feeling ...
FRANZ KAFKA

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep aw...
FRANZ KAFKA

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitte...
FRANZ KAFKA

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially av...
FRANZ LISZT

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would...
FRANZ KAFKA

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
FRANZ KAFKA

Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulat...
FRANZ WRIGHT

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
FRANZ KAFKA

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
FRANZ LISZT

Changes have taken place since year one. When Caruso left, that was a big change. We've been abl...
DENNIS FRANZ

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor...
FRANZ LISZT

Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.
FRANZ WRIGHT

It seems hard to remain a bachelor...to model your appearance and behaviour on one or two bachelors ...
FRANZ KAFKA

L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.
FRANZ KAFKA

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
FRANZ GRILLPARZER

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.
FRANZ KLINE

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of ...
FRANZ SCHUBERT

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourse...
FRANZ KAFKA

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movemen...
FRANZ KAFKA

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it eve...
FRANZ LISZT

He was a guy that was sought after by a lot of people. He's got a chance to be a very good player fo...
BRAD FRANZ

He's long, athletic and he can score.
BRAD FRANZ

It's a perfect fit. He's one of those 6-6, 6-7 guys they've had tremendous success with.
BRAD FRANZ

He's definitely off to a good start. He was doing the same thing at Murray, so none of this surprise...
BRAD FRANZ

He's a very, very good player. I'd say he was one of the top three or four players still available.
BRAD FRANZ

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmeti...
FRANZ KAFKA

Everyone needs to be proactive and know the various warning signs of cancer. Early detection and res...
DENNIS FRANZ

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness wo...
FRANZ KAFKA

Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style becau...
FRANZ MARC

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and a...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER

We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our f...
FRANZ WRIGHT

In a way, I was safe writing
FRANZ KAFKA

I am a cage, in search of a bird.
FRANZ KAFKA

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
FRANZ KAFKA

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a...
FRANZ KAFKA

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terr...
FRANZ KAFKA

False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.
FRANZ WERFEL

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
FRANZ KAFKA

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling...
FRANZ KAFKA

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, sim...
FRANZ KAFKA

Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might...
FRANZ KAFKA

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
FRANZ KAFKA

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKA

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in th...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty ...
FRANZ KAFKA

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was bec...
FRANZ KAFKA

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy
FRANZ KAFKA

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element with...
FRANZ KAFKA

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at on...
FRANZ KAFKA

As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER

The Dutch are braver and more creative players, but less disciplined. They want to let the opponent ...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER

He was sent off at the 1998 World Cup, and now he missed two penalties against France and Portugal. ...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER

We're doing everything we can. But at the end of the day it's his decision, his future,
FRANZ BECKENBAUER

It's his life. At 29, this is his last chance to sign a big contract.
FRANZ BECKENBAUER

"Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible," she said, "but that alone doesn't make it true
FRANZ KAFKA

It's often safer to be in chains than to be free
FRANZ KAFKA

I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered...
FRANZ WRIGHT

German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian s...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER

We will only agree to other tax increases in the talks if people with higher incomes are taxed more ...
FRANZ MUENTEFERING

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
FRANZ GRILLPARZER

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for th...
FRANZ LISZT

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly f...
FRANZ LISZT

This was an obligatory appointment.
FRANZ BECKENBAUER

Truth is a great flirt.
FRANZ LISZT

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring somethin...
FRANZ KAFKA

The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old p...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER

Objects speak: objects possess will and form, why should we wish to interrupt them! We have nothing ...
FRANZ MARC

The two designs are completely different. The first is totally futuristic, the second is more classi...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER

My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I r...
DENNIS FRANZ

I am not interested in considering another TV series. This one was a wonderful experience which will...
DENNIS FRANZ

Persons who write a 10,000 word document and call it a brief
FRANZ KAFKA

Books are a narcotic
FRANZ KAFKA

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
FRANZ KAFKA

You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recog...
FRANZ KAFKA

I do not hope for victory
FRANZ KAFKA

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as ma...
FRANZ KAFKA

From the true antagonist, illimitable courage is transmitted to you
FRANZ KAFKA

Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward
FRANZ KAFKA

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog
FRANZ KAFKA

We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have no...
FRANZ KAFKA

Evil is whatever distracts.
FRANZ KAFKA

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
FRANZ LISZT

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in mo...
FRANZ LISZT

If the French were German in their essence, then how the Germans would admire them!
FRANZ KAFKA

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule,...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is n...
FRANZ KAFKA

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful m...
FRANZ MARC

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to ...
FRANZ KAFKA

What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptiv...
FRANZ WRIGHT

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbea...
FRANZ KAFKA

I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation m...
FRANZ WRIGHT

Who has the gift to recognize beauty, will not live long
FRANZ KAFKA

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
FRANZ LISZT

When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before ...
FRANZ WRIGHT

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.

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Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.

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