Quotes About Culture

El arte y la cultura aumentan la armonía, la tolerancia y la comprensión entre las personas

El arte y la cultura aumentan la armonía, la tolerancia y la comprensión entre las personas —dijo Gete—.

We think that most apparently knowledge-intensive organisations can be pretty stupid.

The leader gives life to the culture of an organization by articulating the vision of the tribe.

English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.

Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little safer.

And besides, libraries aren't just about books. They are one of the few public spaces we have left which don't like our wallets more than us.

This, I soon discovered, was a typical pub. The 'pub' was an invention of humans living in England, designed as compensation for the fact that they were humans living in England.

On Earth, incidentally, civilization is the result of a group of humans coming together and suppressing their instincts.

That was the price of human civilization—to create it, they had to close the door on their true selves. And so they are lost, that is how I understand it. And that is why they invented art: books, music, films, plays, painting, sculpture. They invented them as bridges back to themselves, back to who they are.

Catholicism, I discovered, was a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin and guilt.

Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead.

THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn't very good for the economy.

One thing that has remained constant, across four centuries, has been the desire for a British person to fill a silence with talk of the weather, and whenever I have lived there I was no exception to this rule.

And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?

Catholic, I discovered, meant a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin, and guilt.

People say that humans are the superior species on this planet because we have minds that are conscious of their own existence, and therefore we have the capacity to create a culture, to create an art. I look at sheep, at peace on the moors, and wonder exactly how much of a delusion are our arrogant souls prepared to share?

Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little safer

History is people. Everyone loves history.' Daphne looks at me doubtfully, her face retreating into her neck as her eyebrows rise. 'Are you sure about that?' I offer a small nod. 'It's just making them realise that everything they say and do and see is only what they say and do and see because of what has gone before. Because of Shakespeare. Because of every human who ever lived.

Assessment culture is toxic. The Belgian professor of psychoanalysis, Paul Verhaeghe, believes that the way work is now set up in our societies, with supervisors supervising supervisors and everyone being watched and marked and continually assessed, is toxic.

Catolicismul, am aflat, era o forma de crestinism pentru umanii carora le placeau poleiala cu foita de aur, limba latina si sentimentul de vina.

And the great thing about this—the liberating thing—is that if our anxiety is in part a product of culture, it can also be something we can change by changing our reaction to that culture. In fact, we don't even need to consciously change at all. The change can happen simply by being aware. When it comes to our minds, awareness is very often the solution itself.

But the point is: history is everywhere. It's about making people realise that. It makes you understand a place.

el catolicismo es un tipo de cristianismo para humanos a los que les gusta el pan de oro, el latín y la culpa.