Culture Quotes - Page 10

Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy.

This is the difference between the Spanish advent and the American; that the technical revolution provoked by the first produced the Filipino, while the cultural upheaval provoked by the second merely helped us to become more aware of this Filipinoness.

But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized.

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.

I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire constellation of life's factors: culture, civilization, tradition, history, ideals, facts, physical conditions, one's mental state, the ecology, and so on.

The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid.

An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.

Because history became his (Keenan's) genuine passion, he tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces that, in his mind, formed a nation's character in ways almost beyond the consciousness of the men who momentarily governed it, as if these historical impulses were more a part of them than they knew.

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad.

The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.

Truly a good horse, good ground to gallop on, and sunshine, make up the sum of enjoyable travelling.

Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.

He did not care about titles and was proud to be a farmer beyond all else.