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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Samuel Butler – Culture

Many cultures have viewed the barrier between life and death as permeable. We insist on making it into a wall, and behind this insistence lurks a good deal of unspoken fear.

Deepak Chopra – Death, Culture

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

Goethe – Progress, Science, Culture

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Henry Ward Beecher – Culture

It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Ralph Waldo Emerson – High Culture

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Thomas Carlyle – Culture

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.

Milan Kundera – High Culture and Europe

If high culture is coming to an end, it is also the end of you and your paradoxical ideas, because paradox as such belongs to high culture and not to childish prattle.

Milan Kundera – High Culture

The wealth of a common global culture will then be expressed in the particularities of our different languages and cultures very much like a universal garden of many-coloured flowers. The "flowerness" of the different flowers is expressed in their very diversity. But there is cross-fertilisation between them. And what is more, they all contain in themselves the seeds of a new tomorrow

Ngugi wa Thiong’o – Global Culture, Colonization

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Albert Camus – Culture, Freedom

I know what you mean about bodeis. At Microsoft you pretend bodies don’t exist

Douglas Coupland – Microsoft

People our age area abandoning the tech megacultures in droves, starting up their own companies, or joining small, content-based start-ups.There’s a recruiting frenzy going on

Douglas Coupland – On today’s people

In time, culture comes to be associated, often aggressively, with the nation or the state; this differentiates "us" from "them", almost always with some degree of xenophobia. Culture in this sense is a source of identity, and a rather combative one at that []

Edward Said on culture

What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself.

Objective world

The great help out of our present difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world; and through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically

Study of perfection

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