Quotes by Clifford Geertz

We're getting closer to our nature.

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

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means.

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.

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.

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.