Beats Quote by Aiden Wilson Tozer

The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

— Albert Schweitzer

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

— Octavio Paz

Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty…

— Anton Chekhov

From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of…

— Louis Kronenberger

Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to…

— Jean Giono

In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a…

— Henry David Thoreau

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The…

— Cyril Connolly

We live in a world of breathtaking material plenty. That has freed hundreds of millions of people from day-to-day struggles and liberated us to…

— Anonymous

Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so…

— Friedrich Schiller

“In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion- and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But…

— Jordan B. Peterson

If we can't even spend a short amount of time each day with God in solitude, our spiritual formation will be seriously stunted.

— Tricia Rhodes

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

— John Piper