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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
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.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Culture, with us, ends in headache.
Culture, with us, ends in headache.
A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.
A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.
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.
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.
"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"
