Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so often i...n philosophy, it is hard to improve intelligibility while retaining the excitement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, i...n its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They spe...ak in languages we once classified as "exotic" but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, bu...t as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge ... and the longest life is too short.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me... each month like an exotic flower, nor that children, two monuments, would break from between my legs....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fact that illness is associated with the poor--who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst--reinfor...ces the association of illness with the foreign: with an exotic, often primitive place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himse...lf to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloo...m is gone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »