Culture Quote by René Girard

“I believe that before we can truly dialogue with one another we must first perceive intellectually, and then at the profoundest emotiomal level, that…

— John Howard Griffin

In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with his or…

— Aldous Huxley

“Somewhere, on the edge of consciousness, there is what I call a mythical norm , which each one of us within our hearts knows…

— Audre Lorde

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for…

— Edward T. Hall

“Ours is a culture that reveres the ethos of absolute frankness and elevates truth-telling to moral perfection. Other cultures believe that when everything is…

— Esther Perel

“An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds to conquer,…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

“What they produce is not culture but a population allergic to logic, addicted to drama, and proud of their own mental stagnation. In the…

— E. Ravago

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight…

— Alain de Botton

The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed…

— Richard M. Weaver

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

— Agnes Repplier

We can be certain that, if there are conflicting views in different cultures, some of these views must be false. This may help us…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo