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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.

The great thing about a culture is that once you really get it going, it evolves on its own. It's self-organizing. It's dynamic. It just feeds on itself.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.