Civilization Advances Quotes
- 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… — Alfred North Whitehead
- Do you think that civilization advances because of things written in books? Not a bit of what is written in books ever got there until… — Walter Russell
- As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
- As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques. — Charles Lindbergh
- Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. — Alfred North Whitehead
- As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. — Thomas B. Macaulay