Terence McKenna Quotes

Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Culture is more important than politics.

Custom is our nature …

Culture is more important than politics and government.

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.

Culture is your operating system.

Culture is everything you don't have to do.

Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.

To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.

A mind cannot be independent of culture.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines.

There is endless variety in the details of the customs and laws which prevail of the world at large.

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

I don't understand anything about America's culture.

Culture is intangible. It's spiritual. You can't buy it.

Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction.

You like to think that you're bigger than your traditions and customs, but they form who you are.

We have a unique culture.