A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit

(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

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.

what we call cultural evolution is essentially a constant growing and widening of the human imagination.

Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts, and after looking about for a few thousand years declares itself in possession of eternal truths. But in a world that is changing as fast as ours, this is a prescription for disaster. No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.

Modern culture is the most powerful in history, and it is ceaselessly researching, inventing, discovering and growing. At the same time, it is plagued by more existential angst than any previous culture.

This wide, fast-moving system of technology bends the culture subtly, but steadily, so it amplifies the following forces: Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning, and then Beginning.

Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.

Every advance in our acuteness of perception will show us something thing new; but the old and first-discerned thing will still be there, not falsified, only modified and enriched by the new perceptions, becoming continually more beautiful in its harmony with them, and more approved as a part of the infinite truth.