"It may be in the cultural particularities of people â€” in their oddities â€” that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found."

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Source : Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.43, Basic Books

Clifford Geertz

#Oddities Quotes #People Quotes #May Quotes

“There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family”
“When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.”
“Worship is the common sense of faith in a life to come; and the hours we devote to it will assuredly be among those upon which we shall reflect with most thankful joy when all things here shall have fallen into a very distant background, and when through the Atoning Mercy our true home has been reached at last.”
“The soul is the weariest part of the body.”

Source : Paul Bowles (2002). “The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House”
“I've seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent.”
“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”

Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
“Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket”

Source : "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.
“Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. Mere orderliness leads to increasing impoverishment and finally to the lowest possible level of structure, no longer clearly distinguishable from chaos, which is the absence of order. A counterprinciple is needed, to which orderliness is secondary. It must supply what is to be ordered.”

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