Quotes About Culture

In the free world (Natopolis) the centres of ideological orthodoxy are rarely defined. The diversity of intellectual trends within the orthodoxy, the indeterminate and shifting character of its boundaries, the existence of real centres of dissent (and the licence given to even Stalinist opposition)--all these conspire to create the central illusion of Natopolitan culture, that there is in fact no orthodoxy but only an infinite variety of opinions among which one is free to choose.

Italy is a country every man should love once.

if you live in a culture that to a large extent equates self-worth with how much and what you have, if you cannot look through this collective delusion, you will be condemned to chasing after things for the rest of your life in the vain hope of finding your worth and completion of your sense of self there.

on your personal and cultural conditioning. We may call this phantom self the ego. It consists of mind activity and can only be kept going through constant thinking. The term ego means different things to different people

Paradójicamente, lo que mantiene en marcha la llamada «sociedad de consumo» es el hecho de que intentar encontrarte a ti mismo a través de las cosas no funciona. La

Your thinking, the content of your mind, is of course conditioned by the past: your upbringing, culture, family background, and so on. The central core of all your mind activity consists of certain repetitive and persistent thoughts, emotions, and reactive patterns that you identify with most strongly.

A medida que uno crece, va formándose una imagen mental de sí mismo basada en su condicionamiento personal y cultural. A este yo fantasma lo llamamos ego.

Because we live in such a mind-dominated culture, most modern art, architecture, music, and literature are devoid of beauty, of inner essence, with very few exceptions

The content you identify with is conditioned by your environment, your upbringing, and surrounding culture.

In most ancient cultures, people believed that everything, even so-called inanimate objects, had an indwelling spirit, and in this respect they were closer to the truth than we are today.

El mundo está lleno de libros preciosos que nadie lee" The world is full of precious books that nobody reads

Georgie's grandfather had been born in Italy, and lived in America for five years before he got his citizenship papers, at which time he could rightfully be called an Italian-American. In Georgie's eyes, this was the only time the hyphenate could be used properly. His parents had been born here of Italian-American parents, but this did not make them similarly Italian-Americans, it made them simply Americans

Gloria Anzaldúa, who revolutionised the Chicana writing of her generation, called the border 'una herida abierta – an open wound – where the Third World grates against the First and bleeds. And before a scab forms, it haemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two countries merging to form a third country – a border culture.

Most people are widely read. I'm thinly read. I've read *** all, and I'm very proud of it.

my civilization is not even skin deep - it does not go deeper than my clothes.

In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people; they have no lawyers.

And the man rose and put a foot upon it and, raising his face to the heavens, voiced a horrid cry —the victory cry of the bull ape. Corrie was suddenly terrified of this man who had always seemed so civilized and cultured. Even the men were shocked. Suddenly recognition lighted the eyes of Jerry Lucas. John Clayton, he said, Lord Greystoke— Tarzan of the Apes! Shrimp's jaw dropped. Is dat Johnny Weissmuller? he demanded.

monuments of historic achievement

You reach thirty-five as a single woman, and you're branded either militantly independent or just plain pathetic. But a single thirty-five-year-old man—now, he's the hottest thing going. An eligible bachelor.

The American classicist Edith Hamilton once described the great works of literature, the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

Edith Hamilton

Introduction to Classical Mythology Of old the Hellenic race was marked off from the barbarian as more keen-witted and more free from nonsense. HERODOTUS I: 60.

Our world is going through a crisis of dehumanization, breakup of family life, a general loss of moral values.

She sang, of course, M'ama! and not he loves me, since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.