3,162 Quotes About Culture

El conocimiento - me dijo un día - es una cuerda que se va alargando progresivamente. Cuando sabes algo, Arturo, estás deseando saber algo más. Cuanto más alimentas tu curiosidad, más insaciable se vuelve esta. Y así vas tejiendo tu cultura, como una cuerda infinita a la que puedes aferrarte para caminar.

خفقة قلبك لامرأة,أو صداقتك لرجل,أو قراءتك لكتاب هى أسفار حقيقية و ميلاد جديد لك,و تاريخ جديد لحياتك.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

The culture of a civilization is the pomp of its poor.

Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and rules of contradiction. In aesthetics, I believe the name given to this theory is Dadaism; in philosophy, nihilism; in psychiatry, schizophrenia. In the parlance of the theater, it is known as vaudeville.