Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
'Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
Culture means control over nature.
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.