Civilization Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic,…

— Anthony Daniels

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

— Charles Lindbergh

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

— Anonymous

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is…

— Henry Miller

All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man…

— Alfred L. Kroeber

Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of its positive…

— Edmund Bourne

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

— Ludwig von Mises

Man is more than his environment. It is from the innate quality of the Spirit in him, his inner storehouse, that he draws those…

— Nilakanta Sri Ram

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.

— Carl Jung

Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

— Linus Pauling