Quotes of: Modern-culture Keyword

It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.

Christopher Plummer

Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in such a favourable position with regard to the sources of our knowledge of human nature. Psychology, ethnology, anthropology, and history have amassed an ...

An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

When we think of the word culture, obvious representations such as how to dress, eat, speak, and act like those around us come to mind. But learning culture is more than learning conformity to external patterns of behavior. Culture is also a system o...

Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds

On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to...

The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature

It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This terrible Twentieth Century has made all cultural theories from Plato down seem ridiculous. Little man, there has never been a human culture.

Listen, Little Man!

while modernity is not Christianity, modernity is the product of a Christian civilization. Lately the defects of modernity have been made plain to us while its virtues have been taken for granted.

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find; The man who does not hesitate to criticize the other, although he behaves in the same way;

The Modern Man: A philosophical divagation about the evil banality of daily acts

Cultural heritage define the uniqueness of individuals. Appreciate cultural diversity.

Think Great: Be Great: Beautiful Quotes

The safe and cultural method of eating crackers in bed is to wear a diver's suit instead of pajamas.

The Culture Corner

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

P. J. O'Rourke

I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.

Richard Dawkins

Culture becomes visible when we travel between “ cultures ” and when we look back in time to other “ cultures ” than our own.

Michael Ryan

Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relativel...

Iain McGilchrist

Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.

Tom Freston

If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not - you are not smiling about it.

Wynton Marsalis

One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.

Zack Snyder

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

The Great War and Modern Memory

The first key to leadership is self-control.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.

Robert Gottlieb

Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching

The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History