Civilization Quote by Ivo Andrić

“Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If it becomes…

— Sigmund Freud

“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are…

— Roger Scruton

“Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon; to this truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded by the insolence of material success.”

— Richard M. Weaver

“You have your own stories, the dramatic and more ordinary moments where what has gone wrong becomes an opening to more of yourself and…

— Krista Tippett

“By most people the 'sense of reality' is understood to be the submission to events and indeed illusion is often salvation.”

— Lionel Trilling

“People's realities are the result of their perceptions.”

— Karen Wojcik Berner

“To prevent becoming overwhelmed by the world around us, we must, as the ancients practiced, learn how to limit our passions and their control…

— Ryan Holiday

“We are like flames on a match that suddenly blaze forth and end just as quickly in a wisp of smoke, extinguished by a…

— John Lyman

“The world is burning, and yet the firelight illuminates the way out. The times are dire, even catastrophic. Nonetheless we can sense a grand…

— Brian Klaas

“Elsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nations disintegrate, while others are born, soon to…

— Muriel Barbery

“The thing is that we tend to perceive one another the way we want to. And when that image is destroyed, we become angry.…

— Ricky Martin

“Average reality begins to rot and stink as soon as the act of individual creation ceases to animate a subjectively perceived texture.”

— Vladimir Nabokov