Quotes About Culture

Males and farts. Any species, any planet, didn't matter.

The world was full of interesting words used to describe complicated things. There was tartle, a Scottish word for the panicked pause you experience when you have to introduce someone, but you don't remember their name. There was backpafeifengesicht, a German term for a face you'd love to punch. There was gigil, a Filipino word for the urge

Of course, in Texas the history of Texas took up more space in the textbook than the entirety of the rest of Western Civilization combined.

I guess Ancient Greeks didn't really have a lot of access to porn so it must've been fun to imagine that every tree hid a meek girl with big boobies.

All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

As a matter of fact, no other language in the world has received such praise as the Lithuanian language. The garlands of high honour have been taken to Lithuanian people for inventing, elaborating, and introducing the most highly developed human speech with its beautiful and clear phonology. Moreover, according to comparative philology, the Lithuanian language is best qualified to represent the primitive Aryan civilization and culture.

lietuvi? tauta privalo b?ti išsaugota, nes joje slypi raktas visoms m?sl?ms – ne tik filologijos, bet ir istorijos — ?minti".

Since the human race's natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Tan sólo por la educación puede el hombre llegar a ser hombre. El hombre no es más que lo que la educación hace de él (Immanuel Kant)

Filial Piety, which is considered one of the two wheels of the chariot of Japanese ethics—Loyalty being the other.

Anything was better than music, for music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

Quello che divide o unisce gli individui non è la lingua, non sono le leggi, i costumi, i princìpi, ma il modo di tenere le posate!

Sonrieron. Se entendían bien. No sólo los unía la carne, el pensamiento, el amor; además, habían nacido en el mismo puerto de Crimea, hablaban la misma lengua, se sentían hermanos. Habían bebido en la misma fuente, compartido un pan amargo.

Tutto era meglio della musica, perché solo la musica abolisce le differenze di lingua o di abitudini fra due esseri e tocca fibre sensibilissime.

a good education is precisely designed to correct the instincts of human nature.

Nu limba, legile, obiceiurile sau principiile despart sau unesc fiinÈ›ele, ci felul identic în care È›in cuÈ›itul È™i furculiÈ›a.

And besides, these German officers were cultured men, after all! What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

TAKING THE LONG VIEW, we are still a young civilization and our culture is a work in progress. In our policies, programs, and plans for caring for people through the end of life, we have been acting childishly: ignoring basic responsibilities, indulging in magical thinking (If we ignore it, maybe it will go away), and fighting without regard to the consequences.

Bueno, hay un par de homosexuales; pero eso son anormales normales.

no race or culture has a monopoly on wartime cruelty.

We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable.

Give yourself to these great works of art. They suffice for a lifetime.

Adelaide cooked a plain dinner since neither Will nor Auntie ever knew what they were eating and Will thought interest in food was bourgeois.