“Dreams carry us back to the earlier stages of human culture and afford us a means of understanding it more clearly.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture. — John McAfee Copy Share Image
“Our struggle to navigate the space of possible pains and pleasures produces most of human culture.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Spaceflight isn't just about doing experiments, it's about an extension of human culture. — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality. — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
“no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving. — James Redfield Copy Share Image
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We were already, in 1981, bemoaning the fact that people were using certain accessorised ideas and images that they connected with us… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
While massive datasets may feel very abstract, they are intricately linked to physical place and human culture. And places, like people, have… — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
“Human culture arises directly from how we overcome the challenges of survival. Some call culture a balance between decadence and celebration. The… — David Ai Copy Share Image
... How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The changes that we can make in the culture can be there for people that we will never meet, that will never… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
“To some degree, the entirety of human culture and civilization has been built upon survival and death avoidance. From the creation of… — Tim Seeley Copy Share Image
The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“To understand the rise of Christianity or the French Revolution, it is not enough to comprehend the interaction of genes, hormones and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Certainly human culture may have achieved great progress in the course of history. Suffering and unhappiness in the human world, however, do… — Zenkei Shibayama Copy Share Image
“Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in such a favourable position with… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Sport is a product of human culture. America seems to need football at this state of our social development. When you get… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
“Scientists now tell us that evolution has been supplanted on this planet by culture. Human culture moves at so rapid a pace… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
Quite a lot of what we normally think of as human culture doesn't fit some definition. What are the values behind cuisine,… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
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