Alan Watts Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Culture Quotes

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

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Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

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Managers should understand there are some simple things they can do tomorrow that will make a big difference in their culture, but so few managers do them.

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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Reading Quotes , Culture Quotes

The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer's Leica; rather, it is something dynamically produced in the act of representation and reception and already subject to the grids of meaning imposed on it by culture, history, language, and so forth.

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Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.

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I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.

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It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

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Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

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As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

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Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel

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"Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.

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Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

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My favorite parts are definitely the traveling. Getting to see all the places that we've been is really amazing to me, [as well as] getting to meet all the people that we wouldn't normally meet. It's really awesome, because we really get to know their culture and see what it's like in other places in the world.

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A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

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A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Science Quotes , Culture Quotes

The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality. We have them, the other animals don't, and -- so the argument goes -- that's that.

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The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Culture Quotes , Synthesis Quotes