For while spirituality has the dynamic to transcend and transform culture, it invariably expresses itself in and through culture.

Albeit i may die sleep not in the coffen of gold and even beer no fruit; but my impact after depart is my particular to paradise.

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Practices are cultural: they do not submit to the meanings that an individual wants them to have, either for herself or for others.

Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.

And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.

We want to make certain that we view culture through the eyes of faith, that we don't view our faith through the eyes of culture.

..while I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth.

In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.

La cultura è un bene comune e primario, come l'acqua: i teatri, le biblioteche, i musei, i cinema sono come tanti acquedotti.