Best culture & belief Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.”

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Book:Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

Source: Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

“The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that while the art world has effectively freed itself from the tyranny of artistic tradition and its historic patronage system, it has ended up inhabiting an autonomous but perceived irrelevance.”

World Art Culture Belief Christianity Creativity Virtue Effects Theory Tradition Tyranny Artistic Historic Art World Avant Garde Autonomous Cumulative Patronage Irrelevance

Author:John Walford

“A great introduction to cultures is their cuisine. It not only reflects their evolution, but also their beliefs and traditions.”

Culture Belief Evolution Tradition Introduction Cuisine

Author:Vikas Khanna

“Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.”

Should Mean Culture Belief Democracy Humanistic

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

“Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.”

Culture Belief Evolution Evolve Persist Biological Evolution

Book:The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

“In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a different kind of recycling. Moviemakers give movies of the past an authority that those movies didn't have; they inflate images that may never have compelled belief, images that were no more than shorthand gestures and they use them not as larger-than-life jokes but as altars.”

“The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.”

Men Ends Culture Belief Divine Supplements

Book:Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations

Source: Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations

“Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just appreciate how long we've been doing it.”

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults. In a culture of alienated people, the belief that everyone has at least one good period in life free of care and drudgery dies hard. And obviously you can't expect it in your old age. So it must be you've already had it.”

People Needs Children Hard Care Age Dies Culture Belief Childhood Periods Adults Myth Old Age Be You Drudgery

Book:The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

“The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.”

Firsts Littles Moments Able Culture Individual Belief Born Community Birth Habit Activity Shapes Creatures Behavior Standards Patterns Customs Impossibility Accommodations

Author:Ruth Benedict

“Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.”

Earth Culture Belief Consciousness Return Lifetime Reincarnation Units Belief Systems

Book:The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness

Source: The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness

“Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture. Because Neanderthal men who still rode the landscape parallel to the people who did these paintings didn't have culture. There's no evidence of culture, no symbolic depiction, no evidence of music, no evidence of sculptures, no evidence of religious beliefs.”

People Men Humans Stills Soul Culture Belief Religious Modern Painting Evidence Awakening Landscape Caves Sculpture Parallels Human Soul Symbolic Religious Belief Depiction Neanderthals

Author:Werner Herzog

“The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!”

Art Hard Facts Values Dies Culture Belief Study Feminist Objectives Scholarship Ideological Excluded Biased Neutrality

Author:Adrienne Rich

“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others,thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”

Ifs May Whole Purpose Culture Three Asks Belief Lines Moral Shapes Elements Strings Solitary Configuration

Book:The Culture We Deserve

Source: The Culture We Deserve

“The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.”

Art Culture Politics Belief Existence Critical Disaster Disrespect Dispensable

Author:Twyla Tharp

“One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion.”

Christian Political Culture Belief Religious Devotion Trends Rhetoric Arbitrary Unimportant Religious Belief Religious Devotion

Book:The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion

Source: The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion

“In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.”

Christian Culture Belief Religious Passing Treated Contemporary Passings Christian Life American Culture Fads

Book:The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion

Source: The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion

“The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly Just think of Rodin, how he dealt with people of all ages. I have the feeling that I'm alive, I have a body I can make it extremely interesting. That keeps me alive and vital. It's a kind of process of energizing myself by my belief that the classical tradition of art that we've inherited from the Greeks is a load of bullshit.”

People Thinking Kind Art I Can Feelings Body Age Culture Belief Process Interesting Views Alive Tradition Ugly Greek Load Principal Bullshit I'm Alive Energizing Rodin

Author:John Coplans

“Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the realm where "prejudice" is now most an issue, it normally takes a form like this: you cannot prove by the method of statistics and quantitative measurement that men are not equal. Therefore all men are equal. ... You cannot prove again by the methods of science that one culture is higher than another. Therefore the culture of the Digger Indians is just a good as that of Muncie, Indiana, or thirteenth-century France.”

Men Form Culture Belief Issues Century Higher Prove Equal Opposites Prejudice Method Guilty France Realms Statistics Ads Measurement Indiana

Author:Richard M. Weaver

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