Quotes About Culture

Dehellenizing Christianity turns it into a sect.

De menselijke warmte in een samenleving wordt minder naar de mate waarin haar wetgeving volmaakter wordt.

De goede smaak die is aangeleerd is erger dan de slechte smaak die men van nature heeft.

Man no longer knows how to invent anything that does not serve to kill better or to make the world a little more vulgar.

Probablemente en otras épocas abundaron las porquerías tanto como en la nuestra, pero en ninguna tuvieron los discursos que las justifican y alaban popularidad semejante.

Civilizations are not made "avec des idées" but with good manners.

An age is civilized if it does not reserve intelligence for professional work.

The most precise and shortest definition of a true civilization has been given by Trevelyan: A leisured class with large and learned libraries in their country seats.

No hay tontería en que el hombre moderno no sea capaz de creer, siempre que eluda creer en Cristo

No sentir la putrefacción del mundo moderno es indicio de contagio

Alle Welt ist heute links. Welche Erleichterung!

Vulgarity is not a product of the people but a subproduct of bourgeois prosperity.

The modern world will not be punished. It is the punishment.

Let us not expect the rebirth of civilization as long as man has not again learnt to feel humiliated when he devotes himself to economic tasks.

Between animal and man there is no barrier but a palisade of taboos.

El Occidente habrá muerto, cuando deje de ser la presencia de Grecia en un alma cristiana.

The growing number of people who consider the modern world "unacceptable" would comfort us, if we did not know that they are captives of the same convictions that made the modern world unacceptable.

The racist errs by believing that pure races exist, the anti-racist by believing that the ingredients of a beverage are of no importance.

The effect of democratic rhetoric on taste is called disgust.

A cultivated soul is one where the din of the living does not drown out the music of the dead.

Only those who secretly propagate the admiration of beauty conspire effectively against today's world

I am the asylum of all the ideas displaced by modern ignominy.

Adults? Maybe there were only two: Thucydides and Burckhardt.

Al despojarse de la túnica cristiana y de la toga clásica, no queda del europeo sino un bárbaro pálido