Acquisition Quote by Frederick Douglass

There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Religions, creeds, drama, poetry, games, folklore, folk tales, mythology, moral and aesthetic codes' elements of the political and juridical life affirming a personality's value…

— Alija Izetbegović

“It is certain that no culture can flourish without narratives of transcendent origin and power”

— Neil Postman

“My dear boy," said Lord Henry, smiling, "anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. That is the reason why…

— Oscar Wilde

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

— John Burroughs

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind, and consider…

— Marcus Aurelius

“The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely…

— Rollo May

The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess…

— Wendell Berry

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

— Herbert Read

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is…

— Henry Miller

“The genuine culture is not of necessity either high or low. It is merely inherently harmonious, balanced, self-satisfactory. It is the expression of a…

— Edward Sapir

“it is waking that understands sleep and not sleep that understands waking. There is an ignorance of evil that comes from being young: there…

— C.S. Lewis