Quotes by Geertz, Clifford

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as >>

Quotations about Self-image

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To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

Geertz, Clifford