How To Become Cultured (Renaissance Man/Polymath)

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"Go to art galleries, listen to music, know what's happening on the news, in the world, and form opinions, develop your taste and judgment." - Alan Rickman

Edited November 23, 2022 by The Mystical Man

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Paul Brunton was a cultured man:

"The cultural arts offer a path to reality, whether one can actually create or can only enjoy their products. Through good inspired drama, painting, writing, poetry, or opera, there is the possibility of achieving contact with its transcendental source."

"Although it is true that aesthetic appreciation is relative and not absolute, it is also true that the process of evolution has set up standards within us which are progressive from a lower to a higher, a vulgar to a finer one."

"Art opinions and reactions are more than just a matter of personal taste. They are also indicators of evolutionary status."

"It depends on a man's taste, which in turn depends on how mature he is, how rich an experience garnered in former lives he possesses, how developed and balanced is his judgement, and, lastly, how refined are his feelings."

"In scholarship, in the arts, in precious classics of poetry and literature and music, wide-ranging over the entire world and back to ancient eras but not deserting the latest knowledge of science, he will find nourishment for his mind and feelings. Culture, real education, makes man man, puts him over the animal."

"Art cannot be dismissed as mere embellishment. It answers a human need. As Plato saw, the search for the beautiful is only another aspect of the search for the true and the good."

"No nation can call itself truly civilized which does not encourage the teaching, the practice, or the appreciation of the arts."

"A country without culture, without music, painting, poetry, drama, and literature, is a country without a soul."

"Judge a work of art by analysing its effect. Does it leave you feeling better or worse, inspired or disturbed, calmed or restless, perceptive or dulled? For every opportunity to behold great paintings or listen to inspired music or read deeply discerning literature is itself a kind of Grace granted to us."

"When art or literature inflames negative passions, it renders a disservice; but when it purifies, redirects, and exalts them, it renders not only a cultural service but also an evolutionary one."

"To recognize, appreciate, or create beauty is to bring gladness into life."

"Whether it be applied in the home (furnishing and decorating), expressed through sound in music or paint in pictures, in poetry or prose, drama or dance, the mission of art is to create images of beauty which attract man to refinement ever-increasing."

Edited November 24, 2022 by The Mystical Man

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[Asayake]

Are you going to make a toplist with ratings at some point?

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13 hours ago, Asayake said:

Are you going to make a toplist with ratings at some point?

I'm not really interested in rating works of art. That's why I usually don't write reviews. I'm just compiling a list of films, books, and songs that I like.

[Eyowey]

I like the idea of doing a bite sized version of everything that can be done. Every day.

The only reason I don't do it yet is because I fear success. Success is terrifying.

 

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"Genius can be more accurately identified by perseverance, courage, concentration, enormous drive, and absolute integrity. Talent alone is not enough. Dedication of an unusual degree is required to achieve mastery, and in the simplest definition, one could say that genius is the capacity for an extraordinary degree of mastery in one’s calling. A formula followed by all geniuses, prominent or not, is: Do what you like to do best, and do it to the very best of your ability." - Dr. Hawkins

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On 8/10/2022 at 9:56 PM, The Mystical Man said:

A cultured person carries himself well:

• Great at the art of conversation
• Great social skills
• Great communication skills
• High emotional intelligence

• Emotional Intelligence 2.0
• How to Win Friends and Influence People

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