"It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable."

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"It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable."

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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

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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, British Poet

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

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"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

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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."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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

Edward Abbey, American Author

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"We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of."

Andrew Cohen, American Writer

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"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."

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"The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones."

People

"In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented."

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"Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object."

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"The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego."

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"Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words."

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"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."

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"Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status."

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"It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable."

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