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Quotes about culture
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Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides. (Bikel Theodore)
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. (Bikel Theodore)
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. (Bikel Theodore)
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all. (Bikel Theodore)
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The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. (Bikel Theodore)
We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal. (Bikel Theodore)
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. (Bikel Theodore)
General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. (Bikel Theodore)
Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio -- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how -- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home -- within the family, so to speak -- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others. (Bikel Theodore)
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. (Bikel Theodore)
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. (Bikel Theodore)
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. (Bikel Theodore)
What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers. (Bikel Theodore)
In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo. (Bikel Theodore)
Culture is one thing and varnish is another. (Bikel Theodore)
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. (Bikel Theodore)
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart. (Bikel Theodore)
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. (Bikel Theodore)
Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill. (Bikel Theodore)
Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver. (Bikel Theodore)
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. (Bikel Theodore)
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. (Bikel Theodore)
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down. (Bikel Theodore)
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. (Bikel Theodore)
Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization. (Bikel Theodore)
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