Books Quote by Richard Mitchell

“It is certain that no culture can flourish without narratives of transcendent origin and power”

— Neil Postman

“Someone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, and I believe there is much…

— Louis L'Amour

“Language and literature allows us to define our own truths using our perceptions of culture and society.”

— T. MacLaughlin

“Culture does not exist autonomously; it is set always in the context of social relationships.”

— Robert A. Nisbet

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

— Oscar Wilde

“It's absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture…

— Oscar Wilde

“You have to taste a culture to understand it.”

— Anonymous

“Culture primarily witnesses the absence of meaning, not it's presence.”

— Thomas McFarland

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

“Culture is not enough, even though nothing is enough without culture.”

— T.S. Eliot

“Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader’s limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.”

— László Krasznahorkai