Civilization Quote by Charles Baudelaire

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

— Charles Baudelaire

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor…

— Cyril Connolly

“What makes a civilization real to its inhabitants, in the end, is not just the splendid edifices at it centre, nor even the smooth…

— Niall Ferguson

“Civilization, as it is often practiced today, is really manufactured, inauthentic civilization”

— Stjepan Mestrovic

In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A…

— Philippe Starck

The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a…

— William Whewell

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know…

— Elizabeth Hurley

“A civilization is integral and healthy to the extent [that] it is founded on the "invisible" or "underlying" religion, the religio perennis, that is,…

— Frithjof Schuon

Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.

— Charles Krauthammer

The system of revealed truth which this Book contains is like that of the universe, concealed from common observation yet...the centuries have established its…

— Isaac Newton

Theory is continually the precursor of truth; we must pass through the twilight and its shade, to arrive at the full and perfect day.

— Anonymous

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

— Robert Green Ingersoll