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Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.
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Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.
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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, with us, ends in headache.
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Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald’s food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and retro clothes in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter for TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.
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Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics – a rational ethics – as a precondition of rebirth.
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Every man’s ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
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Find a priest who understands English and doesn’t look like Rasputin.
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For an adequate formation of a culture, the involvement of the whole man is required, whereby he exercises his creativity, intelligence, and knowledge of the world and of people.
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Gardeners are often manipulative of plants, disrespecting their right to grow unmolested.
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General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.
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Great culture is often betokened by great simplicity.
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Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance.
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Growing up in a very demonstrative kind of culture, Italian-Americans would sing a lot, and I think my grandfather, singing out the window, probably had the greatest influence in my life.
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He took exception to that, and he’s right, … This is culture. What is counterculture is ‘The Anna Nicole Smith Show.
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Here in the U. S. culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers — and in people’s minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic.
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High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone.
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High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they’re all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.
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Hoping to get people to go to museums again, New York City has started a new ad campaign called ‘I Love New York Culture’. But if they want me to go back to museums, they should name the campaign ‘Sorry We Yelled At You For Touching Stuff, Jimmy Fallon.
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I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention and labor, make himself whatever he pleases, except a great poet.
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