Quotes About Culture

Marrano" was the Spanish word for "pig." Pretty much sums up Catholic Spain's view of Jews.)

Nuestra cultura es una tercera piel (la segunda es el entorno ecológico). La naturaleza humana es cultural. La cultura no es un aditamiento artificial del hombre, como un cierto evolucionismo sutilmente presupone. El hombre es un animal cultural, la cultura es natural y las culturas son distintas, aunque no incomunicables.

La actividad filosófica no es neutral. Desde la República de Platón hasta la íntima relación entre brahmino y ksatriya en las Upanisad la filosofía se encuentra íntimamente ligada con la política. No hace falta esperar a Marx para establecer esta conexión. Toda la historia de la filosofía es una confirmación de ello.

Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.

Sometimes he found it frustrating to be a sadist in an age when self-mutilation was all the rage

But insanity is everywhere these days, and celebrated. Insanity is rapidly becoming the new normal.

People have lost their history, the what and how and why of things. They know so little of the places where they live.

The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert.

The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert. But Henry was himself and no one else, and judging by

He is not an agent of justice, for there can be little or no real justice in this broken world, where culture and politics are forever redefining the word. Instead, he is an agent of truth, which can't be endlessly redefined, which simply is, though often difficult to uncover. His task is to bring the truth to those who live by lies and deception, and deliver unto them the rightful consequences of their deceit.

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.

I avoid contemporary TV...politics...art: all too frantic, fevered, and frivolous, or else angry, bitter.

Biedermeier

Tempe, where the unfortunately named Hohokam people ruled so long ago that

Well I'm not in Adams and Steichen's league. I like to think my work is art, but few galleries represent photos anymore, not like there were when those guys were hot. The mystique is gone, you know. Every Joe and Jane with a smartphone thinks they're a genius photographer.

When a society erases its past, for whatever reason," she said, "it cannot have a future.

Money's neither dirty nor noble. It's a neutral substance, an inevitable part of civilization.

Tiffany lamps and the Japanese gold-lacquer boxes that dated from the Taish? through the Heisei eras

I'm a tea-swilling limey, too.

Jim Jamison, like Ed, loved music and art and history.

Not as bad as a Sherpa

As a man who felt that he had been born too late, Jeffy was often amazed at what passed for high art in this low age.

I'd been slowly robbed of my sense that I lived in a culture that still valued reason above unreason, civility above rote invective, which had once been the case.

The first people settled there along the Santa Cruz River about twelve thousand years