The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
You will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind.
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Roy T. Bennett
What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
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Aberjhani
Imagination is the sacred intuition.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.
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Criss Jami
I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to tell you. You may think that you should listen, should strain to make out its whispers, should bend over backward, stoop down low to hear its...
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Lauren Oliver
More Quotes By Clifford Geertz
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.
Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.
Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.
It may be in the cultural particularities of people – in their oddities – that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.
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.
