Quotes By Clifford Geertz

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

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.

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it.