Victor Turner famous quotes

06-24-2025

Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more than that, as a realm of pure possibility whence novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise
-- Victor Turner

#Ideas #May #Possibility
Prophets and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, "edgemen," who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the clichés associated with status incumbency and role-playing and to enter into vital relations with other men in fact or imagination. In their productions we may catch glimpses of that unused evolutionary potential in mankind which has not yet been externalized and fixed in structure.
-- Victor Turner

#Men #Artist #People
The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention and ceremonial.
-- Victor Turner

#Law #Conventions #Entity

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'
There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.
We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them.
In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.
The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

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