Civilization Quote by Charles Lindbergh

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

— Charles Baudelaire

“A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become linked to…

— Frank Herbert

The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This process, this method necessary to man's survival and prosperity upon the earth, has often been derided as unduly or exclusively "materialistic." But it…

— Murray Rothbard

We have grown as primitive man to modern ways and are now looking for modern man to grow from merely primitive choices

— Alexander Fennis

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his…

— Rene Dubos

In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great civilizations. But…

— Ralph Bunche

Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is…

— Karl Jaspers

“Man’s life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able to swerve…

— Baron d'Holbach

“…man never regards what he possesses as so much his own, as what he does; and the labourer who tends a garden is perhaps…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is…

— Charlie Chaplin