culture Quotes

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.