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“The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.”

Needs Humans Pain Law Culture Kindness Universal Constant Hunger Details Absence Locals Beloved Predictable Exaltation Need Love

Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone

Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone

“The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective image of reality.”

Art Shows Reality Artist Culture Mirrors Constant Historical Objectives Purifying True Reality Overseeing

Book:The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian

Source: The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian

“Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that constant vertically which confronts European culture with what it is not?”

Doe Reason Culture Courses Constant Horizontal Interrogation

Author:Michel Foucault

“Constant acts of goodness are worth far more than rare acts of greatness.”

Culture Greatness Goodness Constant Service Culture

Author:Ron Kaufman

“Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked back to the origins of life, to the foundations of culture, and to the deepest levels of the human mind. Myth was not concerned with practical matters, but with meaning. Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair. The mythos of a society provided people with a context that made sense of their day-to-day lives; it directed their attention to the eternal and the universal.”

Source: The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism