Local Realistic Theories

Famous quotes containing the words local, realistic and/or theories:

“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.”
—Clifford Geertz (b. 1926)

“To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)

“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)