“Culture arises only when the individual fulfills his cycle of obligations. If everyone recognizes and fulfills his cycle of obligations, genuineness emerges. The culture of a whole nation can in the final analysis be built upon nothing else.” IfsWholeCultureIndividualNationsBuiltFinalsAriseObligationAnalysisCyclesGenuineness Book:The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
“We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.” PeopleThinkingWantNeedsLooksPlayHelpingKidsCultureSportsViewsFootballSoccerAnalysisRegulationGoing OutPolitically CorrectFatnessCompetitive Sports Author:Boris Johnson
“Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the threshold of his potentialities without a culture in which he participates. Conversely, no civilization has in it any element which in the last analysis is not the contribution of an individual.” LastsCultureIndividualSocietyCivilizationElementsAnalysisContributionEntityThreshold Book:PATTERNS OF CULTURE Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE
“This Western culture of ours tends to sacrifice the full range of experience to a lower common denominator that's acceptable to more people; we end up with McDonald's instead of real food, Holiday Inns instead of homes, and USA Today instead of news and cultural analysis. And we do that with the rest of our lives.” PeopleRealEndsHomeTodayCultureCommonOur LivesSacrificeNewsWesternRangeAnalysisUsaHolidayMediocrityAcceptableMcdonaldsCommon DenominatorWestern CultureInnsReal Food Author:Kate Bornstein
“Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.” RealityCultureExperienceIntellectAnalysisCategoriesDistractionInvitesIntervening Author:Tom Hoover