Quotes About Culture

The Minister-President or the richest magnate could walk the streets of Vienna without anyone turning around, but a court actor or an opera singer was recognized by every salesgirl and every cabdriver.

Consciously or unconsciously, our education renders us slaves to morals, religion and a perceived vision of the world; our breath is the air of the epoch in which we live.

Making music, dancing, the theater, conversation, proper and urbane deportment, these were cultivated here as particular arts. It was not the military, nor the political, nor the commercial, that was predominant in the life of the individual and of the masses.

and it was the pride and ambition of the Jewish people to co-operate in the front ranks to carry on the former glory of the fame of Viennese culture.

what is culture, if not to wheedle from the coarse material of life, by art and love, its finest, its most delicate, its most subtle qualities?

NI PARÍS, NI NUEVA YORK, sino Viena era el centro del mundo en los dos primeros decenios del siglo XX. Fue en la ciudad del Danubio donde se fraguaron, más que en ningún otro lugar, muchos de los esplendores y los horrores que estaban aún por llegar y que, a la postre, acabarían rotulando nuestro mundo actual y nuestras propias vidas.

Du holde Kunst, in wieviel grauen Stunden...'

Es el asombro eterno que en cada rincón de la Tierra, siente todo hijo de la naturaleza ante los hijos de la cultura, para quienes un puñado de metal amarillo tiene más valía que todos los logros técnicos y espirituales.

traditie betekent ook altijd een remmende factor.

Die Familie der Mutter ist international, bei Familientreffen wird Italienisch, Französisch, Deutsch oder Englisch gesprochen. Die jüdische Herkunft spielt dabei keine Rolle, niemand im familiären Umfeld praktiziert die Religion.

seine Unbildung war auf allen Gebieten gleich universell«.

Es ist das ewige Staunen aller Naturkinder an allen Enden der Erde über die Kulturmenschen, denen eine Handvoll gelbes Metall kostbarer erscheint als alle geistigen und technischen Errungenschaften ihrer Kultur.

typical of the so-called "good Jewish bourgeoisie," which gave such marked value to Viennese culture, and which was requited by being completely uprooted

L'arte raggiunge sempre la sua vetta là dove diviene ragione di vita per tutto un popolo.

Was bedeutet Kultur anderes, als der groben Materie des Lebens ihr Feinstes, ihr Zartestes, ihr Subtilstes durch Kunst und Liebe zu entschmeicheln?

Het was fantastisch te leven in deze stad die gastvrij alles wat vreemd was opnam en zich graag gaf

It is generally assumed that getting rich is a Jew's true and typical aim in life. Nothing could be further from the truth. Getting rich, to a Jew, is only an interim stage, a means to his real end, by no means his aim in itself. The true desire of a Jew, his inbuilt ideal, is to rise to a higher social plane by becoming an intellectual.

We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

People who were not American seemed deliberately to avoid efficiency or comfort.

After another minute Reuben brought forth the following sentence: 'I ha' scranleted two hundred furrows come five o'clock down i' the bute.' It was a difficult remark, Flora felt, to which to reply. Was

Stella Suberman's Suggestions for Further Reading The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi, by Edward Cohen The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South, by Eli N. Evans Insecure Prosperity, by Ewa Morawska The Slow Way Back, by Judy Goldman

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.