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“And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says about God tells us more about that civilization than it does about God.”
“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and...”
“The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.”
“, civilization is an ever-changing tacit agreement, culturally inherited, not chosen at birth. Civilization is the invention of man, my big friend. It is a means of ensuring order and structure; it...”
“A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has n...”
“It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.”
“Been thinking of my grandfather, whose wayward brilliance skipped my fathers generation. Once, he showed me an aquatint of a certain Siamese temple. Dont recall its name, but ever since a disciple ...”
“The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Fhrer principle.”
“He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.”
“I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights any evidence that they have not wholly lost their original wild habits and vigor; as when my neighbor's cow breaks out of her p...”
“Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. But victory has not become an ossified...”
“Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs, among the very leaders of their society, but nevertheless the very dregs of human civilisation a...”
“Old Rekohus claim to singularity, however, lay in its unique pacific creed. Since time immemorial, the Morioris priestly caste dictated that whosoever spilt a mans blood killed his own mana - his h...”
“A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too many chances to endure for long. Could anything postpone for a while the hour of its ruin,...”
“Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.”
“The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious context, in the assurance that they could...”
“I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards ...”
“A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.”
“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.”
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”
