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You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that read more
You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.
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"
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and read more
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.
Culture, with us, ends in headache.
Culture, with us, ends in headache.
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children read more
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is read more
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
