Purpose Cultural Cat

Famous quotes containing the words purpose, cultural and/or cat:

“The purpose of population is not ultimately peopling earth. It is to fill heaven.”
—Graham D. Leonard (b. 1921)

“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)

“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)