Civilization Quote by E. M. Forster Download Open image “Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.” — E. M. Forster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Foundation Mind Psychology Sound State of mind
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Beneath the cacophony of sound generated by our world lies the quiet whisper of universal intelligence. Allow it to be heard...” — Simon Boylan Copy Share Image
There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a… — Bernie Krause Copy Share Image
Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe. — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I… — Bernie Krause Copy Share Image
For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos. — Tom Kenyon Copy Share Image
Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations. — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
