Quotes About Culture

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.

I am blessed to have been born in Australia where water sports are loved and swimmers are revered.

I've heard the joke a million times that "Jews in Sports" must be the thinnest book in the world. Actually, I've seen a lot of great players working at the Maccabi Games.

If someone starts talking about pride today I'm going to vomit... The Apache nation had pride and look where they are. The bushmen of Kalahari have pride and look where they are.

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.

I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it's still also country and redneck.

But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.

Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror

Moral judgments are linguistic survivals from the practices of classical theism which have lost the context provided by these practices.

I said Burns was a great Scottish poet who loved before Scott, and Shakespeare and Dickens et cetera were all English, but he could not grasp the difference between Scotland and England.

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

primitive religions are based entirely on fear

Sans culture morale, aucune chance pour les hommes.

one who has come to this country as a mature person may have a keen eye for everything peculiar and characteristic. I believe he should speak out freely on what he sees and feels, for by so doing he may perhaps prove himself useful.

Amerikalilar Almanlardan daha az egitimli olsalar bile onlarda daha fazla cosku ve enerji var; bu da yeni fikirlerin insanlar arasinda daha genis bir bicimde yayilmasini sagliyor.

Almanyadaki semitizm karsitliginin ayni zaman bir Yahudi acisindan bakildiginda da hos karsilanmasi gereken somuclari var. Bana kalirsa alman yahudileri, surekli varliklarini, semitizm karsitligina borclular... Bu ayrim olmadan Almanyadaki yahudilerin asimilasyonu cabucak ve engelsiz gerceklesirdi.

Les américains sont le seul peuple a être passé directement de la barbarie à la décadence sans passer par ce que l'on nomme ailleurs : Civilisation !

in certain societies there is a systematic underestimate of one's own creativity

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

What is truth to the philosopher, would not be Truth, nor have the effect of Truth, to the peasant. The religion of the many must necessarily be more incorrect than that of the refined and reflective few, not so much in the essence as in its forms, not so much in the spiritual idea which lies latent at the bottom of it, as the symbols and dogmas in which that idea is embodied.