Culture Quote by Oliver Benjamin

“The Yale anthropologist Weston La Barre goes far as to argue that `a surprisingly good case could be made that much of culture is…

— Carl Sagan

“Culture can only function if we live out the unwanted elements symbolically. All healthy societies have a rich ceremonial life. Less healthy ones rely…

— Robert A. Johnson

Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down the moon.…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking…

— Ralph Ellison

“We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it is good-and that is…

— Michel Foucault

Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or…

— Eric Gill

Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.

— Miller Williams

Rituals are magical.

— Andre Aciman

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

— Derek Walcott

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

— Anonymous

We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that is the…

— Michel Foucault