#cult

In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#corresponding #divides #faculty #important #inner

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#draw #feel #i #i feel #part

As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict. ↗

— Chen Ning Yang

#am #awareness #both #chinese #conflict

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China. ↗

— Chen Ning Yang

#china #culture #debated #how #into

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict. ↗

— Chen Ning Yang

#brought #century #china #conflict #culture

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#call #culture #gotten #hip #i

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#disposable #gotten #more #much #pop

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#because #difficult #exult #known #most

When we finally achieve the full right of participation in American life, what we make of it will depend upon our sense of cultural values, and our creative use of freedom, not upon our racial identification. I see no reason why the heritage of world culture—which represents a continuum—should be confused with the notion of race. Japan erected a highly efficient modern technology upon a religious culture which viewed the Emperor as a god. The Germany which produced Beethoven and Hegel and Mann turned its science and technology to the monstrous task of genocide; one hopes that when what are known as the “Negro” societies are in full possession of the world’s knowledge and in control of their destinies, they will bring to an end all those savageries which for centuries have been committed in the name of race. From what we are now witnessing in certain parts of the world today, however, there is no guarantee that simply being non-white offers any guarantee of this. The demands of state policy are apt to be more influential than morality. I would like to see a qualified Negro as President of the United States. But I suspect that even if this were today possible, the necessities of the office would shape his actions far more than his racial identity. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#governance #identity #freedom

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#blossom #contend #culture #flourishing #flowers