Quote by Robert Pogue Harrison Download Open image ““Decadence begins with the loss of restraint.”” — Robert Pogue Harrison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Decadence is an elusive concept, resistant to concise definition. In the broadest sense one might explain it as a delight in or preoccupation with… — David J. Bell Copy Share Image
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, the present symptoms of decadence are explained by the fact that the development of industry and machinery has made the struggle… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Decadence is a moral and spiritual disease, resulting from too long a period of wealth and power, producing cynicism, decline of religion, pessimism and… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Decadence begins when the budget to beautify a man's home exceeds the coin spent to ensure its defense.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“Irony that does not deem itself ironic is the most dangerous irony of all.” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Human beings, in other words, are always already dead. This proleptic knowledge of finitude predetermines their most creative as well as their most destructive… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“And nothing . . . disquiets a rationalist more than a forest.” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Soul and habitat--we are finally in a position to know this--are correlates of one another.” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“The destructive impulse with respect to nature all too often has psychological causes that go beyond the greed for material resource or the need… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Our basic human institutions - religion, matrimony, and burial, also law, language, literature, and whatever else relies on the transmission of legacy - are… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“When I’m critical of modern approaches to ecology, I’m really trying to remind my reader of the long relationship that Western civilization has had… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Walls protect, divide, distinguish; above all they abstract . The basic activities that sustain life . . . take place beyond walls.” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
