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Clifford Geertz quotes about people

American Scientist August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006

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The notion that someone who does not hold your views holds the reciprocal of them, or simply hasn't got any, has, whatever its comforts for those afraid reality is going to go away unless we believe very hard in it, not conduced to much in the way of clarity in the anti-relativist discussion, but merely to far too many people spending far too much time describing at length what it is they do not maintain than seems in any way profitable. Clifford Geertz
Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him. Clifford Geertz
I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things. Clifford Geertz
It may be in the cultural particularities of people? in their oddities? that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found. Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz quote: "I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded...."
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now. Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz quote: "People keep asking how anthropology is different from..."
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz quote: "My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some..."
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things. Clifford Geertz

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