Quotes about Culture

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we should choose the barbarians.

Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts.

Invading armies can be resisted, invading ideas cannot be.

Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that time. The era of ancient Egyptian culture lasted for several thousand years; the era of Greek antiquity for almost a thousand. In this respect, a single human life imitates the history of mankind; at first it is plunged into immobile slowness, and then only gradually does it accelerate more and more.

The reign of imagology begins where history ends

Her image of it came entirely from what she had heard. Or read. Or received unconsciously from distant ancestors. And yet it lived within her.

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love.

You become what you hang around most.