Samuel Butler's Quote - A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspi

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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspi

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. – Samuel Butler

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Self-preservation is the first law of nature. – Samuel Butler

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Then spare the rod and spoil the child. – Samuel Butler

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To live is like to love â€” all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler

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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart. – Mahatma Gandhi

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The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. – Jesse Bennett

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What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers. – Jean Dubuffet

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What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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