Quotes by Clifford Geertz

Clifford Geertz

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.

Men

Motivation

Powerful

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

Destroying

Employed

Scholar

As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others’ agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.

Pain

Religious

Strength

Culture is public, because meaning is

Culture

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There’s been an extraordinary advance

Fields

Intellectual

Literature

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue

Feminist

Issues

Thinking

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I’m very skeptical

Agree

Skeptical

Structure

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now

Consciousness

People

Thinking

I don’t feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

Alive

Atmosphere

Fields

I don’t have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

Academic

Style

Writing

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Academic

Agree

Alive

American Universities

Asking

Atmosphere

Book

Consciousness

Construction

Convincing

Culture

Data

Destroying

Different

Diversity

Done

Elephants

Employed

Facts

Feminist

Fields

Hard Times

Hedgehogs

Hegemony

Home

Humanity

Impact

Intellectual

Intuition

Issues

Knows

Literature

May

Mean

Men

Motivation

Moving

Names

Neurology

Numbers

Pain

Paragraph

People

Philosophy

Political Opinions

Powerful

Religious

Research

Satisfied

Scholar

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Quotes by Clifford Geertz

Clifford Geertz

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others’ agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.

Culture is public, because meaning is

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There’s been an extraordinary advance

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I’m very skeptical

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now

I don’t feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

I don’t have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

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