As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never read more

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I read more

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

"What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. read more

"What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life"

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures read more

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

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

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

The end of culture is right living.

The end of culture is right living.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.