Civilization Quote by Gilbert Highet

If we try to think back to the dim and distant past... what is it that helps us reconstruct those times, and to picture…

— Maria Montessori

During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness…

— Thomas Berry

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

— Blaise Pascal

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and…

— Bertrand Russell

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

— Avery Brooks

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

— Blaise Pascal

Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without…

— Paul Valery

Thoughts of mind are explored by the way they are mined

— Farid

Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.

— Henry David Thoreau

The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which is the…

— Eckhart Tolle

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

— Stefan Zweig