Culture
- Mara (goddess), from Latvian mythology
- Mara (folklore), a specter or wraith-like creature in Germanic and particularly Scandinavian folklore
- Mara, also Marzanna, Murava, Morana, Moréna or Morena, in Slavic peoples mythology, the goddess of darkness, death, winter, the Moon and horror
- Mara (Hindu goddess), the goddess of death according to Hindu mythology
- Mara (demon), a "demon" of the Buddhist cosmology, the personification of Temptation
- Sri Mara or Mara Varma, an honorific title of the Pandya kings of south India
- In Hindu mythology, a mantra told to Valmiki to chant
- Mara, an abbreviation of Mayura (Sanskrit word for peacock)
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“The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, nor is it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.”
—Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)
“All our civilization had meant nothing. The same culture that had nurtured the kindly enlightened people among whom I had been brought up, carried around with it war. Why should I not have known this? I did know it, but I did not believe it. I believed it as we believe we are going to die. Something that is to happen in some remote time.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)