Critical Quote by Grant Morrison

In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.

— Anonymous

“Culture is the sea we swim in - so pervasive, so all-consuming, that we fail to notice its existence until we step out of…

— Eric Weiner

The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but…

— Tracy Kidder

Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.

— Johan Huizinga

“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

“When we allow ourselves to become culturally conditioned to believe that we are not enough and that we don’t make enough or have enough,…

— Brené Brown

Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and…

— Helen Keller

It's the same with all the thoughts and feelings and other experiences that arise in the ocean of ourselves. The ocean never resists them,…

— Suzanne Segal

As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant…

— Alan Watts

“The deep, salty, black sea rolls toward us, cold and indifferent, lacking all empathy. Detached, merely itself. This is what the ocean does every…

— Morten A. Strøksnes

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

— Roz Savage

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses…

— Eckhart Tolle