Quote of Selma Lagerlöf - Culture is what remains when one...
Biography - Selma Lagerlöf:
Swedish author and teacher. Nobel Prize in Literature (1909).
Born: 1858 - Died: 1940
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Sweden
Born: 1858 - Died: 1940
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Sweden
Culture is what remains when one has forgotten everything we had learned.
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes for: to learn
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
You shall learn to laugh. Now, all higher humor begins with this, that one no longer takes one's person seriously.
Quotes about culture:
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'
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.
Quotes for: Forgetting
It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
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