Civilization Quotes
Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762 is already a sign of a very advanced civilization.
It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.
NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.
And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure.
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.
There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.
Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.
What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all things cannot endure.
In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.
A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.
Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has to say is important to us all.
When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware - of its own best hopes.
Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?
Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.
As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things which are moral are unlawful.
Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.
Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest ideas of civilization.
The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.
We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.
Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends.
Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.
The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.
Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it.
If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.
The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.
To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.
It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we really want to be is killers.
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.
Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization.
The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.
O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!
All the stuff that makes life worth living is produced privately, and all that the government does is slow down the progress of civilization and bring destruction and disaster wherever it goes.