3,162 Quotes About Culture

Ma se una civiltà crolla, è danaro contante che gli eredi trovano tra le rovine? O è una statua, una poesia, una commedia?(T. Capote)

In a real sense, the important question is never one of validity or truth. Truth exists in the realm of mathematics and in the philosophy of logic, not in perceptions of reality. For those who would understand the world about them, the question is not one of truth, but of utility. Do our investigations deepen our understanding, further our ability to ask more refined questions, and lead to better predictions of events? If so, then the research is justified. If not, it remains but sophistry.

An enviable lunatic! One for whom a pebble has value must be surrounded by treasures wherever he goes.

if you want to understand what a science is, you should look in the first in­stance not at its theories or its findings, and certainly not at what its apologists say about it; you should look at what the practitioners of it do.

And a lil secret, If you want to understand a culture, look for it’s superstitions.

The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

I’m not on my way anywhere, Harry sometimes tells inquirers. How to explain, in a culture frantic for resolution, that sometimes the shit stays messy?

The unique Hawaiian culture needs to be preserved and protected.

Books are a sort of cultural DNA, the code for who, as a society, we are, and what we know.