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"The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture."
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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."
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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."
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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
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"Culture clash is terrific drama."
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"What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself."
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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."
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"Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today."
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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
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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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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
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"Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed."
Persistence
"Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet."
Life
"Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten."
Life
"Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development."
Life
"Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training."
Life
"The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does."
Science
"The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture."
Cultural
"A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life."
Life
"Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends."
Friendship
"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind."
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