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Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
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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.
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Culture depends on cookery. For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce.
Vera, or the Nihilists (1883) -
Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
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Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.
The life of reason (1906) -
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
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Culture is the only thing that we cannot deliberately aim at.
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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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.
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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Culture is „To know the best that has been said and thought in the world".
Literature and Dogma, Preface -
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
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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.
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Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
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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.
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