Clifford Geertz Quotes

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.

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What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.

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Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

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