#culture

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#been #cathedral #culture #disbelief #doing

If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children. ↗

— Silvia Cartwright

#committed #culture #ensure #exhibit #genuinely

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke? ↗

— Gore Vidal

#culture #joke #like #other #produced

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#cinema #cost #culture #harm #losing

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#corruption #culture #education #harmony #humor

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#any #art #artist #cannot #discuss

It’s not great when your husband thinks the only guy who can talk to you, is some other guy. ↗

— Jonas Eriksson

#comedy #hollywood #hollywood-culture #humor #romantic

You honor yourself by acting with dignity and composure. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#culture #education #ethics #inspiration #meditation

I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music; but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all those born to understand it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#culture #identity #prejudice #art

In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus finds him in an act emblematic of the best and most responsible kind of agriculture: an old man caring for a young tree. (pg. 123, The Body and the Earth) ↗

— Wendell Berry

#earth #laertes #odysseus #odyssey #art