Quotes About Civilization

That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius.

The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.

man by nature is not a wild or unsocial creature, neither was he born so, but makes himself what he naturally is not, by vicious habit; and that again on the other side, he is civilized and grows gentle by a change of place, occupation, and manner of life, as beasts themselves that are wild by nature, become tame and tractable by housing and gentler usage...

And, to say truly, the greatest benefit that learning bringeth unto men is this: that it teacheth men that be rough and rude of nature, by compass and rule of reason, to be civil and courteous, and to like better the mean state than the higher.

That best and justest fabric of things was of no long continuance, because it wanted that cement which should have kept all together, education.

But a universal state is not a new beginning for a civilization, it's the start of the death, and it has to follow the same course over and over through history, like a kind of slow but terminal sickness.

Eventually, no doubt, increased intelligence would affect the total personality, but right now you're not removing anyone's weaknesses, ignorances, prejudices, blind spots, or ambitions; you're just giving him more power, of energy and intelligence, to indulge them—which is one reason why civilization is cracking up.

Our own age is not one which can afford to call its ancestors savage.

I've often heard people say, "Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise." When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as their land, with a civilization and culture that contributes to the greater beauty of humankind and no longer smothers and strangles the mind?

Sebelum kertas ditemukan oleh Tsai'Lun, sebelum mesin cetak ditemukan oleh Johann Gutenberg dimana keduanya menjadi medium tradisi tulis, peradaban dibangun oleh segulungan kisah dongeng

Lagi pula tak ada cinta muncul mendadak, karena dia adalah anak kebudayaan, bukan batu dari langit.

I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire constellation of life's factors: culture, civilization, tradition, history, ideals, facts, physical conditions, one's mental state, the ecology, and so on.

Perjalanan yang mengandung banyak peristiwa itu aku nilai berhasil. Kami telah temukan wanita yang kami cari itu. Benar sekali, ibu itu tidak bisa diajak bicara. Kami dapat memahami. Ia terikat pada sumpah Buru. Sampai hari tuanya, tanpa sesuatu harapan pun kecuali mati, ia tetap setia pada sumpahnya; sumpah untuk menyangkal diri, asal, kebudayaan, dan peradaban sendiri. Sumbernya tetap sama; malu kembali pada keluarga.

A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.

Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last — the power to refuse our consent.

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.

When the nations of Europe began to conquer this New World they made ample compensation to its native inhabitants by bestowing on them civilization and Christianity in exchange for unlimited independence.

Throughout the history of our civilisation, two traditions, two opposed tendencies, have been in conflict: the Roman tradition and the popular tradition, the imperial tradition and the federalist tradition, the authoritarian tradition and the libertarian tradition.

Man is not a being whose exclusive purpose in life is eating, drinking, and providing a shelter for himself. As soon as his material wants are satisfied, other needs, which, generally speaking may be described as of an artistic character, will thrust themselves forward. These needs are of the greatest variety; they vary with each and every individual; and the more society is civilized, the more will individuality be developed, and the more will desires be varied.

We accustom ourselves and our children to hypocrisy, to the practice of a double-faced morality. And since the brain is ill at ease among lies, we cheat ourselves with sophistry. Hypocrisy and sophistry become the second nature of the civilized man.

There was a story before and beyond Harappa. There is a story before and beyond Keeladi. This journey of a civilization is not a point to point journey. It is an unending expedition of human spirit. y?tum ?r? y?varum k???r Every town our home town, every man a kinsman - Ka?iya? P??ku??a??r

For at least two million years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated Spaceship Earth.