"Culture is public, because meaning is"

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Source : Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.12, Basic Books

Clifford Geertz

#Culture Quotes

“I'm always striving to be a better man to God, a better husband, a better Dad so it's just work, but I'm committed to it.”
“It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.”
“Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.”
“I would encourage anybody struggling with their sexuality to go with their heart. If it's not an appropriate time, there will be one later. Never, ever try to rush into anything - do it in your own time.”
“I want to grow up as an actress and as a woman. Be independent.”
“If you donâ€™t do something differently, youâ€™ll ultimately be where you are now, only later.”
“Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.”
“The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs continue therefore to be held at second hand through trusting others, and in the great majority of cases our trust is placed in the authority of comparatively few people of widely acknowledged standing.”

Source : Michael Polanyi (2012). “Personal Knowledge”, p.221, Routledge

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