Human Culture Quotes
43 quotes by 36 authors
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On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human…
— Ze Frank
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To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence…
— Isidor Isaac Rabi
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Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and enrich human culture,…
— Steven Clark Rockefeller
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Humanity may destroy the possibilities for life on earth unless the freedom and power that we have acquired are channeled in new creative directions by…
— Steven Clark Rockefeller
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We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems,…
— Marjorie Garber
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The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are led…
— Confucius
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It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially…
— Christopher Dawson
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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents,…
— Gregory Bateson
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The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to operate in our…
— Wes Jackson
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Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.
— Ken Robinson
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It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that…
— Howard Barker
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But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution…
— Haldan Keffer Hartline
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The doctrine of foods is of great ethical and political significance. Food becomes blood, blood becomes heart and brain, thoughts and mind stuff. Human fare…
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to think of a…
— Simon Schama
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It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on earth, find expression.…
— Constantin Stanislavski
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Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
— Ken Robinson
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It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions…
— Terence McKenna
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... How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very important means of…
— Alexander Shulgin
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We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future…
— Wendell Berry
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For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now…
— William Irwin Thompson
Who Wrote These Human Culture Quotes
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