"It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable."

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"It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable."

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"Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object."

Religion, Culture, Present, Service

"Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status."

Money, Americans, Country

"In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented."

Art, Work, Day, Invention

"Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words."

Time, Nature, Science, Discovery

"The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones."

People, Being, Fact, Metaphor

"The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego."

Beauty, Truth, Ego, Goodness

"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."

Greatness, Machine, Man

"It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable."

Cultural, Culture, Limits

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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Cultural, Architecture

"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Cultural, Culture, Sheep

"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

Edward Abbey, American Author

Cultural, Coffee, Culture, First

"The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Cultural, Culture, Day, Lies, Mind

"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Cultural, Culture

"Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity."

Chris Van Allsburg, American Author

Cultural, Culture, Fact, Old, Pity

"We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'."

Roscoe Bartlett, American Politician

Cultural, Culture, Energy

"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."

Peter L. Berger, Austrian Sociologist

Cultural, Culture, Globalization

"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."

Peter L. Berger, Austrian Sociologist

Cultural, Europe, Will

"A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy."

Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian Writer

Cultural, Americans, Democracy, Hollywood, Trying