Appetite Quote by Hannah Arendt

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by…

— Aristotle

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

— Ayn Rand

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

— Karl Popper

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for…

— C. S. Lewis

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

— Pasquier Quesnel

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men cease to think when they think they know it all.

— Horace

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

— Henry David Thoreau

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

— Mahatma Gandhi

Rarely we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing…

— Martin Luther King, Jr