Hannah Arendt Quotes

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Each culture represents a harmonious balance of traditional conventions by means of which latent possibilities of human life can unfold themselves in a way which reveals to us new aspects of its unlimited richness and variety..

Our language, history, and civilization shine out across every continent.

Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries.

Culture is an output of a bunch of inputs that have to come together the right way. Specifically, it is the collision of people and their context, how they interact with each other in that context, and then how that context evolves based on those interactions as they multiply.

Culture is a part of basic human nature, of deep humanity.

All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.