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Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.

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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

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“Culture” means … the cultivation of the mind, the taking care and improving of the native faculties of the mind in accordance with the nature of the mind. Just as the soil needs cultivators of the soil, the mind needs teachers. But teachers are not as easy to come by as farmers. The teachers themselves are pupils and must be pupils. But there cannot be an infinite regress: ultimately there must be teachers who are not in turn pupils. Those teachers who are not in turn pupils are the great minds.

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Culture may even be described simply as that which makes life worth living.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.

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