• Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

  Karl Kraus
  Austrian writer and journalist 1874-1936
  

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1. subordination
2. disappear
3. existence
4. latter
5. former

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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. by : Karl Kraus

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