Culture Quote by Jane Goodall

“Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural…

— David Graeber, David Wengrow

in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.

— Margaret Mead

We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.

— David Kim

“Because we imagine that we are what humanity was divinely destined to become, we assume that our prehistoric ancestors were trying to be us,…

— daniel quinn

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

— Simon Callow

From the moment we are born our culture encourages us to believe that outer well-being is the source of inner fulfillment ... Wherever we…

— Russell Peters

We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even,…

— R. D. Laing

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

— Camille Paglia

We started off with physical evolution and got our form. Then we somehow developed language, which meant cultural evolution could race so we could…

— Jane Goodall

Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound…

— Dallas Willard

Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.

— Douglas Coupland

“All of the problems in the world today arise from an inability to grasp the underlying oneness of life. The division of nations, religions,…

— David Frawley