Quotes About Culture

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

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.

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one's wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture.

I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture

Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.

Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.