Culture Quote by Thomas Carlyle

“We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds; we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence;…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sadly, Beautifully, A Perfect Clarity, Shared, By so few. We notice, Bask, In Wonder, Splendor, The Sacred, Truth. Even as we try, To push…

— Eric Nickel

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely…

— James A. Baldwin

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

— Albert Einstein

Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the fact that…

— Anonymous

We are hard pressed on everyside, but not crushed;Perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not abandoned ; Struck down, but not destroyed.

— Bible

“It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have…

— George Eliot

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

— Camille Paglia

“we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that…

— C.S. Lewis

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

— Alice Miller

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.

— Charles W. Chesnutt