Quotes of: Cultural Keyword

It is time we admitted, from kings and presidents on down, that there is no evidence that any of our books was authored by the Creator of the universe. The Bible, it seems certain, was the work of sand-strewn men and women who thought the earth was f...

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

They gathered after mass, sang hymns and read. Everyone had grown even more serene; beneath the sisters' kerchiefs it was as if there were no faces. When they met Daryushka — it was as if they bowed down lower. She was walking in the Spirit. Daryus...

The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

Historians are wont to name technological advances as the great milestones of culture, among them the development of the plow, the discovery of smelting and metalworking, the invention of the clock, printing press, steam power, electric engine, light...

The Story of Psychology

...This is the arena in which a spiritualized disobedience means most. It doesn't mean a second New Deal, another massive bureaucratic attack on our problems. It doesn't mean taking to the streets, throwing bricks through the window at the Bank of Am...

The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work

Elder's Meditation of the Day - February 18 "laughter is a necessity in life that does not cost much, and the Old Ones say that one of the greatest healing powers in our life is the ability to laugh." --Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWA Laughter is a good st...

Two Cultures Meet: Pathways For American Indians To Medicine

Apocalyptic saucer cults have started to spring up all over America. One small group, which has been receiving messages from outer space via Lake City housewife Mrs. Marian Keech, becomes the subject of a research team led by psychologist Leon Festin...

Welcome to Mars: Politics, Pop Culture, and Weird Science in 1950s America

The Australian Aboriginal cave paintings, from this period, are the first hints of religion that humans have as proof of religious behaviour. The caves in which the paintings are found date to 50,000 years ago through forensic geology and carbon dati...

Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

The Ancestors were from Africa and entered into Australia 50,000 years ago. They would have eaten food from indigenous life from their area almost immediately. They harvest most of the day, and eat this food. The AM looks like a food source they alre...

Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

Look at the kind of people who most object to the childishness and cheapness of celebrity culture. Does one really want to side with such apoplectic and bombastic bores? I should know, I often catch myself being one, and it isn’t pretty. I will def...

Stephen Fry

In Jump Time’s developing hybrid world, capacities once nurtured in separate societies are available to the entire family of humankind. This is a stupendous happening, as important as the discovery of new continents during the time of the great sea...

Jean Houston

We’re at this really unique time, I think, in trans representation in popular culture where homelessness, depression, mental health issues, instability-in-general are still so very real and need to be talked about, but we’re aware that they’ve ...

Love

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures

When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil?

Culture and History

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Culture, Behavior, Beauty, Books, Art, Eloquence, Power, Wealth, Illusions

Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

Culture and Value

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.

Culture and Value

I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.

Culture and Value

A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.

Culture and Value

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.

Dead Men Don't Answer

Gift giving is part of the culture no matter where you are and no matter how long you stay.

Doing Business with Japanese Men: A Woman's Handbook

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

Dharma Punx: A Memoir