Culture Quotes ( 10 - 19 of 19 )
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.
No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
"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"
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.
A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.
A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.
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.
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.
