“In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.” CultureViewsResponsibilityCreationProductsIsraelHeavyBritishCarrieConstructionAnti SemitismComplicity Author:Tom Paulin
“Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.” EndsCultureCreationChaosInsecurity Author:Will Durant
“And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods.” MindSelfFeelingsOrderCultureVoiceLossStageCreationDivineProductsReturnTruth IsConsciousDirectAbsolutesResponsibleDebateJudgementReverseInwardMachineryGermsPrerequisites Author:Julian Jaynes
“Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create a Parthenon.” IdeasRealCultureLiteratureEnergyWealthCreationPaintingFlowerArchitectureDustAtmosphereEngagedLeisureBeesFloatsAntsColonySurplusIncessantlyGreat LiteratureParthenon Author:Edith Wharton
“We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.” KnowsMenWaySaidCultureNextDifferencesGenerationsCreationMen And WomenNext GenerationDifferences Between Man And Woman Author:Margaret Mead
“The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.” ArtStillsKidsCultureCreationPaintingHigherSingingArt IsDancingEverydayPopulationDrawingArtisticIndianDominantPercentagesIndian CultureDominant Culture Author:Sherman Alexie
“Therefore, this is a question of whether we, humans, can change our culture and begin to truly care for all Creation, nurture all Life and thereby avert our own extinction. As such, this is a deeply spiritual issue and we can begin to act today, regardless of age. But the good news is that this is not a question of whether we will change our culture, but a question of when.” HumansCareAgeTodaySpiritualCultureGrowthIssuesCreationNewsConsumptionNurtureGood NewsExtinctionAvert Author:Shailesh Rao
“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.” ThinkingLooksSoulLastsMotherDesireDiesCultureWishLosesCommonEffortHalfDarknessSuccessfulFireChildhoodDyingCreationProduceColdCivilizationGravesDawnGrayRomeWearyWombReluctantRomanticismDaylightClassicism Book:The decline of the West Source: The decline of the West