Life Quote by Stephen Batchelor

“Although we typically take our cultural worldview for granted, it is actually a fragile human construction that people spend great energy creating, maintaining, and…

— Sheldon Solomon

At the present moment in our culture this yearning for meaning and consciousness, this yearning to give and serve something higher than ourselves, is…

— Jacob Needleman

“Or society places a supreme value on control -- hiding what you feel. Our culture mocks "primitive cultures" and prides itself on supression of…

— Jim Morrison

“Along with the usual secular values (such as appropriate tolerance/intolerance, morality, critical thinking, appreciation for reason and science), don’t forget to impart social graces,…

— Dale McGowan

A sense of self has to be sought in the parade of images and products; and this culture becomes the main determinant upon morality,…

— Jeremy Seabrook

“certain categories of us are more crucial to our identities than the kind of car we drive or the number of dots we can…

— Carol Tavris

“Although the realization of values in a culture may seem on the surface to be concerned merely with the temporal and material, this is…

— Henry R Van Til

“As individuals, we experience ourselves as the center of whatever social world we inhabit. We think that we are free and refuse to see…

— Andrea Dworkin

“If the whole world is in a rush and people are out of step with themselves, they fail to catch that quirky aura and…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material…

— Tony Judt

“We have fallen out of belonging. Consequently, when we stand before crucial thresholds in our lives, we have no rituals to protect, encourage, and…

— John O'Donohue

“We are being called upon to act against a prevailing culture, to undermine our own entrenched tendency to accumulate and to consume, and to…

— Lyanda Lynn Haupt