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If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

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

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

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

You have to maintain a culture of transformation and stay true to your values.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

You have to work at creating your own culture.

Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.