3,162 Quotes About Culture

Obi-Wan Kenobi once said ‘your eyes can deceive you, don’t trust them.’ It seems to be getting harder. Distinguishing reality from the illusions people make for us, or the ones we make for ourselves. I don’t know, maybe that’s part of the plan, to make me think I’m crazy…it’s working.

Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.

With museums, I am at best stealing creative yeasts with which to make my strange pastries later. This is why we call it culture.

It is myopic to base sweeping change on the narrow experience of a few years.

The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points.

Despite 2000 years of evolution in modern times, we have still not managed to develop the intelligence to create a society that knows what love is. Our society is still not a civilization, it is still primitive and barbaric.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies.

Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.