Quotes of: Western-culture Keyword

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

City as Landscape

And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.

Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise

If you already have a person's love no sacrifice can be too much to give for it; but any sacrifice is too great to buy it for you.

Culture and Value

Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.

Culture and Value

Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.

Culture and Value

Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and nothing is less suited to meditation than the structure of democratic society.

Democracy in America

He tried to read, but the words swam in front of his eyes in meaningless waves. He put on the television. Nick at Nite, the cultural equivalent of aerosol cheese.

Deal Breaker

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them

The Discovery of India

There were millions of Earth men and women who bought the Earth cultures big lies, and they died just as unhappy as you are now. And I suggest to you that it's a foolish thing.

Demon

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

Dune

The epitome of culture is the search for truth, or at least a reasonable approximation of reality, most notably the need to know ourselves and the world around us.

Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture

Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially—and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

Why is this the "new feminism" and not what it looks like: the old objectification?

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

The False Principle of Our Education

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Friday

Self-governing cultures both inspire alignment and eject elements that don't fit in.

How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything... in Business

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas

I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.

The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture

Everyone, no matter what their cultural background, has a right to discover the sacred in nature; to heal and be redeemed spiritually by nature; and to revere the ancestors. We are all haunted and saved by our memories.

Bone Dance