Human Culture Quotes

43 quotes by 36 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different rÃ©sumÃ©s. â€¦ It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic. — Ken Robinson
It is impossible â€“ now, at this point in the long journey of human culture â€“ to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that… — Howard Barker
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
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
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
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
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture. — Ken Robinson
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
... 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
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
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

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