Quotes About Culture

Philosophy, as distinct from theology, began in Greece in the sixth century B.C. After running its course in antiquity, it was again submerged by theology as Christianity rose and Rome fell.

it is sad really to see the kind of boys that are common everywhere. No mind, no independent thought, no love of good books nor of the higher refinements of morality. It is really sad that the upper classes of a civilised and (supposed to be) moral country can produce nothing better.

He urges his young disciple and friend Pythocles to "flee from every form of culture." It was a natural consequence of his principles that he advised abstinence from public life, for in proportion as a man achieves power he increases the number of those who envy him and therefore wish to do him injury.

Loss of zest in civilized society is very largely due to the restrictions upon liberty which are essential to our way of life.

I think that, if we are to feel at home in the world after the present war, we shall have to admit Asia to equality in our thoughts, not only politically, but culturally. What changes this will bring about, I do not know, but I am convinced that they will be profound and of the greatest importance. 1

One comes across white men occasionally who suffer under the delusion that China is not a civilized country. Such men have forgotten what constitutes civilization.

It is held that no woman can have a good moral influence unless she is or pretends to be indifferent to the male sex.

Greek history is peculiar in the fact that, except in Sparta, the influence of tradition was extraordinarily weak in Greece; moreover there was almost no political morality.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization .

The primary motive of sexual ethics as they have existed in Western civilisation since pre-Christian times has been to secure that degree of female virtue without which the patriarchal family becomes impossible, since paternity is uncertain.

Me temo que se está acabando la época de la gente bien; dos cosas la matan: la primera es la creencia de que no hay peligro en ser feliz con tal que no se haga daño a nadie; la segunda es la aversión a la farsa, aversión tanto estética como moral.

One hundred and fifty years of science have proved more explosive than five thousand years of prescientific culture. It would be absurd to suppose that the explosive power of science is exhausted, or has even reached its maximum. It is far more likely that science will continue for centuries to come to produce more and more rapid changes.

The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.

It seems that sin is geographical.

Morala curent? este un amestec bizar de utilitarism È™i superstiÈ›ie, unde îns?, cum e È™i firesc, precump?neÈ™te componenta superstiÈ›ioas?, de vreme ce superstiÈ›ia se afl? la obârÈ™ia regulilor morale.

Akbar, though he could neither read nor write, was a highly educated man.

Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy.

Texans didn't have the vocabulary God gave a groundhog.

Southern Baptists don't pick at their food. What we don't drink, we eat.

Ours was a patriarchal world. To be anything different wouldn't have been Southern Baptist.

Stay out of my salsa and I'll stay out of yours. This is key to long-lasting relationships in Texas.

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.

The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern music scene.