People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
Clifford GeertzI've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.
Clifford GeertzCultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.
Clifford GeertzAs a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.
Clifford Geertz