Quotes About Culture

It is in fashion nowadays to go to hell.

The most ancient pictures and statues in Italy and other parts of Europe, of what are supposed to be representations of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus, are black. The infant god, in the arms of his black mother, his eyes and drapery white, is himself perfectly black. [335:8]

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

the theatre was the greatest of all the arts.

There's a lot of common sense in some superstitions, George.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Few people realize that the Bible discourages people from studying foreign languages.

Harvard has de facto become a Chinese outpost.

Not a single Buddha, bodhisattva, or shengren in Europe, but in Asia: all philosophers and saints? What is that probability?

Of all the cultures that have disappeared from the world, not a single farewell letter or suicide note has been unearthed.

Star Wars is Chinese Taoism.

The Chinese dragon 'long' is essentially a force of the good.

The East is more inductive, while the West is more deductive.

The shengren is above philosophy and beyond religion. He is decisively not European. This will be read in a thousand years.

The shengren is the single most important concept in Chinese history.

The vocabularies in the world add up, they do not overlap. Translation is something else.

We must begin to find the untranslatables in each culture and return them to world history.

Because traditions are like eggs—once you break one, it is impossible to put it back inside its shell.

This city is like some giant social experiment conducted every single day. This place should be a fucking powder keg—but somehow, it's not.

Until she went with him to India the first time after they were married. Then it all made sense, and she realized that the hospitality he displayed to all guests was larger than he was - it was cultural, hereditary, something coded into his DNA.