"From the failure of the humanist tradition to……" — Louis Kronenberger
"From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all."
—
Louis Kronenberger
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
58 Quotes by Louis Kronenberger
Louis Kronenberger has 58 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so…
-
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous…
-
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American…
-
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or…
-
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps…
-
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own,…
-
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria,…
-
The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a…
-
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive…
-
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied…
-
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
-
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has…
See all 58 quotes by Louis Kronenberger »
More Act Quotes
This quote is filed under Act Quotes,
one of 8,447 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
See all 8,447 Act Quotes »