"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""

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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."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Cultural, Culture, Man, Weakness

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

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Cultural, Culture, First, Man, Suspicion

"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

Elizabeth George, American Author

Cultural, Culture

"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Cultural, Culture, Sheep

"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."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Cultural, Culture, Future

"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."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Cultural, Culture, Leisure, World

"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

Edward Abbey, American Author

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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

Mark Crispin Miller, American Journalist

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"Getting hold of the difficulty deep down is what is hard. Because if it is grasped near the surface it simply remains the difficulty it was. It has to be pulled out by the roots; and that involves our beginning to think about these things in a new way. The change is as decisive as, for example, that from the alchemical to the chemical way of thinking. The new way of thinking is what is so hard to establish. Once the new way of thinking has been established, the old problems vanish; indeed they become hard to recapture. For they go with our way of expressing ourselves and, if we clothe ourselves in a new form of expression, the old problems are discarded along with the old garment."

Growth

"The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language."

Philosophy

"Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic."

Morality

"Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in every part. Put him back into his proper element and everything will blossom and look healthy. But if he is not in his right element, what then? Well, then he just has to make the best of appearing before the world as a cripple."

Adaptation

"Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about, you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about."

Language

"He who lives in the present lives in eternity."

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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."

"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

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

"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

"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."

"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."

"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

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"The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language."

"Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic."

"At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded."

"Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself."

"An entire mythology is stored within our language."

"Language disguises thought."

"Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about, you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about."

"He who lives in the present lives in eternity."