Quotes Tagged "cultural-criticism"

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.
Tags: western-culture, the-west, the-enlightenment, the-dialectic-of-enlightenment, society, philosophy, enlightenment, dialectics, dialectic, decline-of-civilization, decline, culture-critique, culture, cultural-criticism, critical-theory, civilization
Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to the inclinations you feel. Diligent in business - but indolent in spirit, content with your inadequacy, and with the cloak of duty hung over this contentment: that is how you live, that is how you want your children to live!
Tags: philosophy, inspirational, cultural-criticism
Unfortunately, human progress is generally determined not by our spiritual, our emotional, and our intellectual development but by that of our technologies.
Tags: technophile, technology, spirituality, social-criticism, progress, materialism, intellect, emotional-intelligence, cultural-criticism, civilization