Quotes About Culture

The essences by necessity will not be the "answer" philosophy calls for, any more than are the facts. The "answer" is higher than the "facts," lower than the "essences," in the wild Being where they were, and—behind or beneath the cleavages of our acquired culture—continue to be, undivided.

It is impossible to separate the child from cultural influences; rather, it is a false problem.

Electronic media is powerful and pervasive and is radically shaping modern culture with profoundly secular attitudes, values, and behavior.

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.

Anywhere but in England it would be impossible for two solitary men, howsoever much reduced by influenza, to spend five or six days in the same hostel and not exchange a single word. This is one of the charms of England.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

Adolf Hitler had led one of the most educated and cultured societies on earth to a moral, political and military abyss. He now sought to ensure that as many as possible of his own people accompanied him over the brink.

whom one would care to share a desert island. My subjects represent a range of nationalities, but are chiefly Anglo-Saxon, for this is my own culture. Three rose to lead large forces, most did not. This is a study of fighters, not commanders.

The French were more tolerant of brothels than any other nation in Europe, though there was some dispute about whether this reflected enlightenment or depravity.

Pragmatism reflects a society that has no time to remember and meditate.

Well-informed cynicism is only another mode of conformity.

The self, entirely encompassed by civilization, is dissolved in an element composed of the very inhumanity which civilization has sought from the first to escape.

because Christian artists substituted spiritual strength for Greek surface beauty.

I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

In den Glasperlen des Märchens spiegelt sich die Welt.

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Science is part of culture. Culture isn't only art and music and literature, it's also understanding what the world is made of and how it functions. People should know something about stars, matter and chemistry. People often say that they don't like chemistry but we deal with chemistry all the time. People don't know what heat is, they hardly know what water is. I'm always surprised how little people know about anything. I'm puzzled by it.

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

Because im dutch

Das Konzept Gottes geworden in Anatolien und wurde dem Westen auferlegt.

Where 'doing one's job' cannot be directly linked to the highest spiritual and cultural values--although it may be felt to be more than mere economic coercion--the individual today usually makes no attempt to find any meaning in it. Where capitalism is at its most unbridled, in the United States, the pursuit of wealth, divested of its metaphysical significance, today tends to be associated with purely elemental passions, which at times virtually turn it into a sporting contest.