Quotes with `culture

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  • Bill Viola Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Culture depends on cookery. For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce.
    Source: Vera, or the Nihilists (1883)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Simone Weil Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • George Santayana Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.
    Source: The life of reason (1906)
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Thomas Wolfe Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Henry van Dyke Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • T. S. Eliot Culture is the only thing that we cannot deliberately aim at.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Karl Kraus 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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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Matthew Arnold Culture is „To know the best that has been said and thought in the world".
    Source: Literature and Dogma, Preface
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Northrop Frye Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
    Northrop Frye
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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  • Matthew Arnold Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Matthew Arnold Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Albert Camus Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Burning Spear Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Albert J. Nock Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Arnold Bennett Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Antonin Artaud Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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