Terence McKenna Quotes

I really hold on to my culture because it is what made me.

I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Culture is more important than politics.

Culture is more important than rules and regulations.

I don't think culture is something you can describe.

Culture is more important than politics and government.

I get quite bemused by the comments made about what I wear because, for African people, how you dress is very important.

Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and being hoity-toity. Culture is about definition.

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

Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.

Culture has always been more important than politics. Sometimes culture is a mirror that reflects what is; sometimes it's a search-light pointing the way to what will be.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.

Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.

A culture-bearing book, like a mule, bears the culture on its back. No one should sit down to write one deliberately. Culture-bearing books appear almost accidentally, like a sudden surge in the stock market. There are books of high quality that are a part of the culture, but that is not the same. They are a part of it. They aren't carrying it anywhere. They may talk about insanity sympathetically, for example, because that's the standard cultural attitude. But they don't carry any suggestion that insanity might be something other than sickness or degeneracy.

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place.

All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.

Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.