26 quotes found
“To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central human system of thought.”
“Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.”
“We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris- ing generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad ma...”
“The human race is a letdown, Ernest — a bad, bad letdown. And I’m disgusted with it. It thinks it’s progressed, but it hasn’t. It thinks it’s risen above the primeval slime, but it hasn’t. It’s wal...”
“In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.”
“The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!”
