Quotes About Culture

The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).

If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.

So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.

But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor.

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.

Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing.

In the Bhagavat culture worship of the spiritual master plays a very important role in our life.

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.

The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions.

Looking deeper into African way of life, it wasn't religious; it was spiritual. When you go into spiritualism, spiritualism will teach you about virtues, how to be patient, humble and kind.

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

I do not think that my spiritual apprehensions are as dogmatically cultural as those of many people who have been brought up strictly in a particular tradition.

Taoism is not a religion, although perhaps it has been made into one by some people. Lao Tsu's way of life occurs in any spiritual philosophy.