453 quotes found
“The smile is civilization’s finest adornment. It signifies the willpower and duty to fashion mankind’s coexistence as quietly and agreeably as possible so that it will always appear friendly. For i...”
“The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.”
“It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints.”
“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democrac...”
“London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a stress greater than they have ever borne before. Under cos...”
“O what we ben! And what we come to!”
“So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.”
“Empathy is a big part of Sparkleponies, because it’s also my belief (as a history and political science major) that societies that don’t practice rational empathy inevitably collapse – either by fo...”
“That’s the vicious truth doctor. For me and persons like me, we are experiencing a divorce from our own individual self by sensing our sensations, emotions, behaviors as not belonging to the same p...”
“Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.”
“Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
“Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.”
“[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no...”
“Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.”
“A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.”
“If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man — and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages — it must be shown that it has produced better ...”
“And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.”
“It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.”
“On why 300 years separates the first use of glass lenses in spectacles and their use in a telescope: “In many cases there are times when an invention is technologically possible – and in which it m...”
“The fact that Man is Nature’s perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some kind of an artificial intelligence”
