Quotes About Culture

Civilization consists in giving something a name that doesn't belong to it and then dreaming over the result.

Pertenezco a una generación que ha heredado el descreimiento en la fe cristiana y que ha creado en sí misma un descreimiento en todas las demás fes.

I'm convinced that in a perfect, civilized world there would be no other art but prose.

A society so undisciplined in its cultural foundations could obviously not help but be a victim

Only people who wear clothes find the naked body beautiful. The overriding value of modesty for sensuality is that it acts as a brake on energy.

What used to be moral is aesthetic for us. What was social is now individual.

Civilizations appear only to exist in order to produce art and literature, for what speaks of them, what remains of them, are words.

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Llegar al mundo es llegar a nuestro mundo, al mundo de los humanos.

quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.

For reasons that may puzzle anthropologists long into the future, the prawn cocktail – a few (hopefully unfrozen) crustaceans placed in a glass on a bed of shredded lettuce, smothered in a pink Marie Rose sauce and sprinkled with paprika had become the quintessential English idea of fine dining.

They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy and shame: we are a hyphenated people.

There is nothing in this life so nice and so Gaelic as truly true Gaelic Gaels who speak in true Gaelic Gaelic about the truly Gaelic language.

I am, as you know, an Irish person and yield to gnomon in my admiration and respect for the old land.

The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development.

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.

The formality that is left in the South now is quite dead and done for of course.

He was singing a hillbilly song that sounded half like a love song and half like a hymn.

The girl had taken the Ph.D. in philosophy and this left Mrs. Hopewell at a complete loss. You could say, "My daughter is a nurse," or "My daughter is a school teacher," or even, "My daughter is a chemical engineer." You could not say, "My daughter is a philosopher." That was something that had ended with the Greeks and Romans

True culture is in the mind, the mind," he said, and tapped his head, "the mind." "It's in the heart," she said, "and in how you do things and how you do things is because of who you are." "Nobody in the damn bus cares who you are." "I care who I am," she said icily.

I think the way country music is set up, we all came from a family background.

I had white family members, black family members, white friends, black friends by the time I was 16.

Most people only see Africa in terms of poverty and war, famine and disease.