Attitude Quote by Clifford Geertz

“Recall Clifford Geertz definition of culture: "an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms…

— Wendy Griswold

Culture is an output of a bunch of inputs that have to come together the right way. Specifically, it is the collision of people…

— Andy Dunn

Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.

— Max Weber

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books…

— John Cowper Powys

Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages,…

— Tariq Ramadan

A culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and the way…

— Walter Rodney

Culture is simply the hospitality of the intellect. Your mind is open to new ideas and larger views; when they enter, you know how…

— Tom Kettle

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that…

— Joseph Epstein

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their…

— Walter Lippmann

Culture is an elevated expression of the inner voice which the different peoples of the Earth have heard in the depths of their being,…

— Daisaku Ikeda

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

— Hannah Arendt