Civilization Quote by Grant Morrison

“It's a little bit devastating being surrounded by people who can do what you can't anymore. People who create. People whose souls don't live…

— Katja Millay

“Death: It is the greatest adventure. It is stunning that in western civilization we deny it to the degree that we do. Perhaps that…

— Eben Alexander

“The problem of modern man is no longer so much how he can live with gods and demons, but how he can survive with…

— Jürgen Moltmann

“It’s in our nature to want to watch our human frailties played out on a huge, epic canvas. Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a…

— Tom Hiddleston

“Here mankind discarded civilization as if it were an article of clothing and left behind every decent feeling: love; loyalty; simply everything. Here it…

— Schoschana Rabinovici

“Death and destruction are necessary to the health of the world, and therefore as natural, and lovable, as birth and life. Only priests and…

— Ragnar Redbeard

“And humanism—that transcendent vision that spans centuries and religions in its celebration of reason, responsibility, art, and examined lives—has been tossed out like old…

— Jean Hegland

“The world at large is not easily moved to action; it requires many terrible martyrdoms to disturb its equilibrium of dullness; and even when…

— Francisco Ferrer Guardia

“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.”

— Will Durant

“Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and ugliness; accepts…

— Hermann Hesse

“The normal process of life contains moments as bad as any of those which insane melancholy is filled with, moments in which radical evil…

— Thomas Ligotti

“Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls. - On Religion ”

— Arthur Schopenhauer