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.
Clifford GeertzMy instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things
Clifford GeertzI agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical
Clifford Geertz