Quotes About Culture

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!"

Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.

Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.

Civilization is paralysis.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.

I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.