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Letter "H" » human culture
«When one looks back over human existence, however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself»
«I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the ''human figure divine'' but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.»
Author: Edward Weston
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receptacle,
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sensuous,
swelling,
Their culture,
toilet
«In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.»
Author: Gregory Bateson
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Keywords:
cultural,
culture,
DNA,
fails,
gear,
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in gear,
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replicate,
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replicating,
skills,
The Next Generation,
transmission,
values
«Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.»
«God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture»
«Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.»
«If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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About:
Achievement,
Culture,
Gifts,
Mankind,
Value
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Keywords:
arbitrary,
contrasting,
diverse,
fabric,
fitting,
fittings,
gamut,
human culture,
potentialities,
potentiality,
richer,
rich in,
weave
«My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness. Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and»
«Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.»
Author: Hermann Hesse
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Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Age,
Beauty,
Cruelty,
Culture,
Custom,
Education,
Strength,
Traditions,
Weakness
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Keywords:
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custom,
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patiently,
Real Character,
reduced,
sufferings,
tradition,
Two Cultures
«The distinctions of society vanish before the light of these truths. I attach myself to the multitude, not because they are voters and have political power; but because they are (human), and have within their reach the most glorious prizes of humanity. . . . Self-culture, the care which every (person) owes to (oneself), to the unfolding . . . of (one's) nature. . . .»