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Cultural Historian Inspirational Quotes (171)

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God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.
Egon Friedell
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These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.
Johan Huizinga
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An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
Johan Huizinga
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What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it.
Stephen Birmingham
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Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.
Johan Huizinga
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Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
Johan Huizinga
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Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.
Jacques Barzun
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The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a single idea, but a set of different and even contrary traditions in creative tension with one another. This diversity of libertarian ideas has created a culture of freedom which is more open and expansive than any unitary tradition alone could possibly be.
David Hackett Fischer
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
Jacques Barzun
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The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.
Thomas Berry
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A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.
Stephen Birmingham
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You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.
Johan Huizinga
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The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.
Johan Huizinga
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The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.
Peter Gay
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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Jacques Barzun
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The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.
Johan Huizinga
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We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the universe, the earth, and the imperatives of our own being. Each of these has a creative power and a vision far beyond any rational thought or cultural creation of which we are capable.
Thomas Berry
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Strangers who have seen Shaw face to face are wont to report their surprise at his gentleness and consideration, his willingness to listen and his complete lack of pose.
Jacques Barzun
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So long as we are under the illusion that we know best what is good for the earth and for ourselves, then we will continue our present course, with its devastating consequences on the entire Earth community... We need only listen to what the Earth is telling us... the time has come when we will listen, or we will die.
Thomas Berry
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The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation increases the sense of oppression. Nor is the paradox merely in the mind: the laws enacted to secure the rights of every person and group, by creating protective boundaries, create new barriers.
Jacques Barzun
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The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.
Thomas Berry
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I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
Jacques Barzun
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As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth.
Thomas Berry
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The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
Jacques Barzun
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