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"The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture."
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"The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture."
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"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."
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"Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning."
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"Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you."
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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."
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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."
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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
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"I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again."
Writing
"And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man."
Nature
"Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up."
People
"I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage."
Work
"I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive."
Reading
"A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel."
Poetry
"And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man."
Experience
"Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere."
Beauty
"It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism."
Cultural
"Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it."
Time
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