Quotes About Culture

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

I bring a lot of passion to my life and my politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong Latin component to it.

I'd advise you to visit New Orleans before you pass away. I really would. Because if you die without seeing New Orleans, you wasted half your life.

Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.

I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles.

All my life is in Spain. I will stay.

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another.

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

Everybody against me. Why? Why me? I have not brought violence to you. I have not brought Thug Life to America. I didn't create Thug Life. I diagnosed it.

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn't acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.