The Hidden Half Quotes

“John Comaroff, an anthropologist, has written that history is ‘any succession of rupturing events which together bring to recognition our misunderstandings and misrecognition of the present’.”
― Michael Blastland, The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals its Secrets

“treasure your exceptions!. . . Keep them always uncovered and in sight. .”
― Michael Blastland, The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals its Secrets

“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
― Michael Blastland, The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals its Secrets

“with a particular history, in a particular place and local culture, perhaps informed by a particular mood or thought. This means we also have to mix in human agency, the part played by people’s own reactions. Altogether, it’s an enigmatic alchemy of often transitory influences and impulses. As a result, there is little observable order.”
― Michael Blastland, The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals its Secrets