Basement Whatever

“culture is what is left over after you have forgotten all you have definitely set out to learn”

And:

“To be a cultured person is to be a person with some kind of original philosophy… This implies a desire to focus such imaginative reason as we possess upon the mystery of life.“

And:

“The more culture a man has, the more austerely — though naturally with many ironic reserves — does he abide by his own taste.”
— Read on www.themarginalian.org/2015/11/25/the-meaning-of-culture-powys/