Culture (n.) is not merely what separates men universally from animals, but what separates one 'people' from the next. As such, it is pluralistic and historical, a collection of traits that allows a comparison between cultures both in time and space.
Culture (n.) is not restricted to a set of shared habits and customs which today allows us, for example, to speak of the corporate culture of mcdonald's or of a Japanese tea ceremony as an expression of a particular culture.
Culture (n.) is not restricted to the idea of 'high culture,' that is to the valuation of existing artistic achievements. All of the vital expressions of a people are artistic, creative, self-motivating..
Culture (n.) is identity. Thus, in any individual who passes through several cultures we find compressed together the conflict which is otherwise played out between two generations.
Culture (n.) is, paradoxically, itself the reason that a people loses its culture - -and its existence -- when there is not the occasional war and the occasional relapse into barbarism.
Culture (n.) makes a group proud and makes them feel distinguished from the goatherds.
Culture (n.) is the inheritance of a fortune dishonestly acquired, or by a prince who reigns by virtue of an act of violence on the part of his forbearers.
Culture (n.) is the production of great works.
Culture (n.) is the unified artistic style in all of the life expressions of a people.
Culture (n.) is today merely a symptom of consumption, a mental and emotional illness characterized by craving as much as possible, and this as quickly as possible.
Culture (n.) is, for the Greeks, not mere decoration of life. It signifies a striving toward a new and improved nature, without inside and outside, without dissimulation and convention. Culture is the accord of life, thought, appearing and willing.
Culture (n.) is a means of directing taste against the exceptions in favor of the mediocre.
Culture (n.) is, above all, unity of artistic style in all the expressions of the life of a people; much knowledge is neither its means nor its sign.
Culture (n.) can grow only out of life; among the Germans it was stuck on like a paper flower or poured over like icing-sugar, and so remains deceitful and unfruitful.
Culture (n.) is wanted by the German as a flower without the root and the stem: consequently he wants it in vain.
Culture (n.) can be unlearned — unculture is the distinguishing mark of the cured — having unlearned much, indifferent even to much that is good, they have become human again rather than aggregates of humanlike qualities.
Culture (n.) in the Greek conception is a new and improved physis — without inner and outer, without dissimulation: a unanimity of life, thought, appearance and will.
Culture (n.) does not provide artificial limbs, wax noses or spectacles — that is sham education; culture is liberation, the removal of weeds and vermin from the tender buds, the perfecting of nature where she is cruel.
Culture (n.) is rooted in man's longing to be reborn as saint and genius — as sinfulness makes him long for the saint in him, so as an intellect he longs for the genius in him.
Culture (n.) sets each of us one task: to promote the production of the philosopher, the artist and the saint within us and without us, and so to work at the perfecting of nature.