Quotes About Culture

Jiddu Krishnamurti, 26 who explained: "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.

today's flood of addiction is occurring because our hyperindividualistic, frantic, crisis-ridden society makes most people feel social[ly] or culturally isolated. Chronic isolation causes people to look for relief.

2017, the average American spent seventeen minutes a day reading books and 5.4 hours on their phone.

I realized that the collapse in reading books is in some ways a symptom of our atrophying attention, and in some ways a cause of it. It's a spiral – as we began to move from books to screens, we started to lose some of the capacity for the deeper reading that comes from books, and that in turn, made us less likely to read books.

A man who does not know a foreign language is ignorant of his own.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages,knows nothing of their own.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

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

A true German can't stand the French,Yet willingly he drinks their wines.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Seeking with the soul the land of the Greeks.

You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Chi non conosce le lingue straniere non conosce nulla della propria.

Man sollte alle Tage wenigstens ein kleines Lied hören, ein gutes Gedicht lesen, ein treffliches Gemälde sehen und, wenn es möglich zu machen wäre, einige vernünftige Worte sprechen.

Anyone that doesn't know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

When one is polite in German, one lies.

God save you, my brethren, with all your -isms and schisms! I am a citizen of the world, and a man of Weimer. I have established myself by culture in this choice society; and if anyone knows a better place, let him go to it.

Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.