I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one

Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.

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

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

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