Civilization Quote by Edgar Saltus Download Open image “[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.” — Edgar Saltus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Nausea Progress Spread
[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing. — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“[T]his need for excitement of the will manifests itself very specially in the discovery and support of card-playing, which is quite peculiarly the expression… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“No man need curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.” — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on, in secula… — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious. — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
“But to such a man as Schopenhauer,—one who considered five sixths of the population to be knaves or blockheads, and who had thought out… — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
I wrote The Philosophy of Disenchantment, which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I then produced… — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all. — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm. — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
I think our lives are surely but the dreams Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres, Who as we die, do one by one… — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
“To say that he hated it would be unjust, for, like most sensible people, he held hatred to be an elixir far too precious… — Edgar Saltus 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
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