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The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.

— Winston Churchill

“the knowledge underlying civilization is so widespread today”

— Peter Thiel

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

— P. J. O'Rourke

If there are no books. There is no civilization.

— Thomas Cahill

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes…

— John Boyd Orr

The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the sack of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to…

— Hans Sloane

“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

“However, the Scientific Revolution freed humankind from this conviction. The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they…

— Yuval Noah Harari

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

— Henry Fielding

Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler…

— Charlton Laird