Cultural Inheritance Quote by Theodore Dalrymple

“Customs are formed, and the descendants of men are trapped therein. The generations pass without a chance to weed out the foolish from the…

— Noriko Ogiwara

“Tradition makes people want to cling to their identity. Change is the enemy.”

— Deepak Chopra

“A man who thinks a great deal about himself will try to be many-sided, attempt a theatrical excellence at all points, will try to…

— G.K. Chesterton

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

— László Krasznahorkai

“All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.”

— Herman Bavinck

“I could not get used to the idea of ther being classes of people inherently inferior to oneself, to whom one could be as…

— Robyn Davidson

“And second, once we are caught in the pattern of creating ourselves from cultural blueprints, it becomes a primary way of receiving validation. We…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Before he can remake his society, his society must make him.”

— Herbert Spencer

“Our culture confuses the pain of isolation with some impossible ideal of “self-sufficiency,” and then celebrates it.”

— Wayne Muller

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

— Neil Postman

“Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“He has a way of walking through conventions of that kind as if they did not exist, and being so much himself that pretty…

— Wallace Stegner