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Pablo Picasso. Pot, Wine-Glass and Book. 1908. Oil on canvas. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. (Image courtesy of Olga's Gallery).

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Library of Cultural Development: Quotations

"Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture." ~John Abbott

"I think one of the things about American culture is that it really doesn't matter too much where you live. All you need is an antenna and a modem, and you're pretty much in the mainstream."  ~David Foster Wallace

"Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit." ~ Matthew Arnold (Literature and Dogma)

"No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking." ~Ruth Fulton Benedict

"Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."~Goethe ( Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship)

"Culture is but the fine flowering of real education, and it is the training of the feeling the tastes and the manners that makes it so." ~Minnie Kellogg ( Iroquois leader)

"A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties." ~John Stuart Mill (Utilitarianism II, 1863)

"The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to engage a culture in crisis when the crisis consists in the impossibility of engaging with the culture?" ~Jonathan Franzen

"Whoever controls the media – the images – controls the culture." ~Allen Ginsberg

Articles & Links

'Mushollini': A review of Romano Mussolini's book about his father, Il Duce

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