Culture Quote by Terence McKenna

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

— Rita Mae Brown

In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.

— Adrienne Rich

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around…

— Terence McKenna

Language transcends us and yet we speak.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each…

— Terence McKenna

A different language is a different vision of life.

— Federico Fellini

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

— Ravi Zacharias

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

— Robert Payne

We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge…

— Terence McKenna

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

— William Gibson

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture;…

— Douglas Hyde

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action...

— Gore Vidal