--- title: "1 New Culture Quotes By Joshua Wolf Shenk" description: "1 New Culture quotes by Joshua Wolf Shenk. Plus more from Joshua Wolf Shenk and more New Culture sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38c/joshua-wolf-shenk-20627_nineteenth-century_in-the-early-nineteenth-century-a-new-cu_703957.jpg" --- > [“In the early nineteenth century, a new culture—a new idea about what to hope for—emerged for many Americans, centered around the independent self, under nation and God.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-wolf-shenk/in-the-early-nineteenth-century-a-new-culture-a-new-idea-about-what/) [Joshua Wolf Shenk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-wolf-shenk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38c/joshua-wolf-shenk-20627_nineteenth-century_in-the-early-nineteenth-century-a-new-cu_703957.jpg) ## More by Joshua Wolf Shenk > [“The Perspectives of Psychiatry, Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney identify four approaches to a suffering person.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-wolf-shenk/the-perspectives-of-psychiatry-paul-r-mchugh-and-phillip-r-slavney/) [Joshua Wolf Shenk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-wolf-shenk/) > [“The individuals in great dyads will be very different from each other and very much alike. These simultaneous extremes generate the deep rapport and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-wolf-shenk/the-individuals-in-great-dyads-will-be-very-different-from-each-other/) [Joshua Wolf Shenk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-wolf-shenk/) > [“In the fourth century, John Cassian described a condition among his fellow monks that he called “acedia”: a “weariness or distress of heart . . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-wolf-shenk/in-the-fourth-century-john-cassian-described-a-condition-among-his/) [Joshua Wolf Shenk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-wolf-shenk/) > [“creeping fear of madness often accompanies depression. Sufferers wonder if their black moods will ever lift, or if their feelings of alienation from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-wolf-shenk/creeping-fear-of-madness-often-accompanies-depression-sufferers/) [Joshua Wolf Shenk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-wolf-shenk/) > [“The American tradition of separation of church and state grew directly from the freethinking of the Founders. After political independence, they considered independence of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-wolf-shenk/the-american-tradition-of-separation-of-church-and-state-grew/) [Joshua Wolf Shenk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-wolf-shenk/) > [“A person with a melancholy temperament had been fated with both an awful burden and what Byron called “a fearful gift.” The burden was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-wolf-shenk/a-person-with-a-melancholy-temperament-had-been-fated-with-both-an/) [Joshua Wolf Shenk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-wolf-shenk/) > [“because of them, he worked all the harder in his thirties and forties to “make himself,” emotionally as well as materially, and go on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-wolf-shenk/because-of-them-he-worked-all-the-harder-in-his-thirties-and-forties/) [Joshua Wolf Shenk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-wolf-shenk/) > [“The distinction is essential. Fault implies a failure or weakness for which a person should be held to account, if not outright blamed. Misfortune…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-wolf-shenk/the-distinction-is-essential-fault-implies-a-failure-or-weakness-for/) [Joshua Wolf Shenk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-wolf-shenk/) > [“In the early nineteenth century, a new culture—a new idea about what to hope for—emerged for many Americans, centered around the independent self, under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-wolf-shenk/in-the-early-nineteenth-century-a-new-culture-a-new-idea-about-what/) [Joshua Wolf Shenk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-wolf-shenk/) > [“ONE OF THE REASONS that depression is so problematic—and deadly, leading to many of the forty thousand suicides in the United States each year—is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-wolf-shenk/one-of-the-reasons-that-depression-is-so-problematic-and-deadly/) [Joshua Wolf Shenk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-wolf-shenk/) > [“Lincoln was raised in the thick of Old School Calvinism. 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