It is a profoundly erroneous truism repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
SAUCE n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its unpredicted end…. It is the first American section to be finished to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization the first permanent civilization in America.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savages whole existence is public ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge but on the disposition to crave knowledge.
Human history becomes more a race between education and catastrophe.
You cant say civilization isnt advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
It is a profoundly erroneous truism repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
When humor goes there goes civilization.
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
To have doubted ones own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man!
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.
SAUCE n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its unpredicted end…. It is the first American section to be finished to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization the first permanent civilization in America.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savages whole existence is public ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization and at present very few people have reached this level.
Civilization has been thrust upon me… and it has not added one whit to my love for truth honesty and generosity.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition a voyage and not a harbor.
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.
THE SUM OF THE WHOLE MATTER IS THIS OUR CIVILIZATION CANNOT SURVIVE MATERIALLY UNLESS IT BE REDEEMED SPIRITUALLY.
In the advance of civilization it is new knowledge which paves the way and the pavement is eternal.
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge but on the disposition to crave knowledge.