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.

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, with us, ends in headache.

Culture, with us, ends in headache.

The end of culture is right living.

The end of culture is right living.

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.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.

A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.

"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"

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.