Quotes About Culture

I feel like people have a lot of the same good times and the same interests pretty much anywhere.

The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way.

How long's your vacation? A year. Maybe longer. A year? What did you do? Win the lottery? Most americans we met on the road, or at least the ones without nose rings, had a hard time fathoming the idea of a year's travel. Australians and Germans would nod in of course approval. Our country men would fixate on language barriers or some hideous tropical disease. They'd talk about the nightmare scenario - a Third World appendectomy and not being able to tell the doctor to use clean needles.

WE LIVE IN A CULTURAL CLIMATE QUICK TO ACCEPT THE WORST, DENY the best. And we often have difficulty, unlike Dickens, in being sure about how to define moral indicators, especially in complicated human matters. To Dickens, that came easily. He unhesitatingly believed in absolute truths, both moral and cosmological, though, paradoxically, opposite absolutes often co-exist, as in "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Notes on the State of Virginia

Operagoing at its best is about the rekindling of the soul, about having an open window into what makes us human.

Give me the making of a nation's ballads and I care not who has the making of its Laws.

Juju must hang clear of ground,' he said. M'Carthi gave an order, and three black bucks leaped to obey it. They tied a rope of woven vines around the juju and one of them shinned up the tree and passed the rope over a limb; the other two hoisted the juju

Basic insight regarding the nature of decadence: it's supposed causes are its consequences.

El término cultura designa la suma de las producciones e instituciones que distancian nuestra vida de la de nuestros antecesores animales y que sirven a dos fines: proteger al hombre contra la Naturaleza y regular las relaciones de los hombres entre sí

If I were asked to enumerate the pleasures of travel, this would be one of the greatest among them - that so often and so unexpectedly you meet the best in human nature, and seeing it so by surprise and often with a most improbable background, you come, with a sense of pleasant thankfulness, to realize how widely scattered in the world are goodness and courtesy and the love of immaterial things, fair blossoms found in every climate, on every soil.

A arte é o grande estimulante da vida

Ich verspräche gerne diesem Buche die Liebe der Deutschen.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Only sick music makes money today.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

Almost everything we call higher culture is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.

What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb?

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.