Culture Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Nature Powerful Tradition
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we be able to recognize what is customary and, more… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
“Custom brings predictability, and predictability carries its own comforts.” — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image