Civilization Quote by Anonymous

To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.

— Walter Pater

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Seeking, knowing, discovering, enjoying- these faculties or powers are pale and lifeless without realization.”

— Henry Miller

“Further, in the modern story, reality is that which is observable, measurable, and repeatable - the kinds of phenomena available, accessible, and verifiable to…

— Tim Keel

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

— Leo Errera

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is…

— Alan Watts

“Civilization is perhaps nothing but a process of finding out what you cannot have.”

— Sherwood Anderson

“More to the point: the growing universe of the Nones—the new nonreligious—is one of the most spiritually vibrant and provocative spaces in modern life.…

— Krista Tippett

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic,…

— Anthony Daniels

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

— P. J. O'Rourke

[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no…

— E. O. Wilson

I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau