Culture Thesis Quotes & Sayings

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. — Confucius

Nationalism as a thesis confuses (almost always deliberately) certain legitimate desires with illegitimate ones. People like to run their own affairs, and most people value the culture they were raised in, are proud of its achievements and wish it well; a significant degree of their sense of personal and group identity derives from it. All this is unexceptionable. But nationalists try to persuade their fellows that the existence of other groups and cultures somehow represents a challenge, and sometimes a threat, to what the natives of the home culture value. (From: Toward the Light of Liberty) — A.C. Grayling

The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if you say, I believe in God, you have already suggested the possibility of not believing in him. [p.250] — Northrop Frye

Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang. — Philip K. Dick

I love being in the studio, and I am a huge fan of live music. Without writing good stuff in the studio, you have nothing to play live. — Anthony Hamilton

the wise man regards the reason for all his actions, but not the results. — Seneca.

just setting up my twttr — Nick Bilton

Hope gives us reasons to live and pursue our dreams, expecting greater possibilities. — Ellen J. Barrier

Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started into public favour with a fair chance of poisoning the fountains of science, and sapping the foundations of religion. — David Brewster

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with. — Craig Thompson

People don't read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape. — Dermot Davis

It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages and the communication facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these messages and communication facilities, messages between man and machines, between machines and man, and between machine and machine, are destined to play an ever-increasing part. — Norbert Wiener

The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction. — Tony Robbins

Travel was a species of warfare. — E. M. Forster

I know some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't see it that way. — Robin Hobb