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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.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
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"
Culture, with us, ends in headache.
Culture, with us, ends in headache.
No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.
No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never read more
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.
The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so read more
The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.
