Civilization Quote by Thomas DiMauro

“And if this disenchanted vision were elevated to the status of being the only legitimate vision of the nature of the cosmos upheld by…

— Richard Tarnas

“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not…

— Aldous Huxley

“As the Western world has invested every aspect of its waking life with visual order, with procedures and spaces that are uniform, continuous and…

— Marshall McLuhan

“By imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight; we become the creators of our future, and cease to be the slaves of our…

— Will Durant

“It is the tendency of the so-called primitive mind to animate its environment. Modern depth psychology has requested us for years to withdraw these…

— Philip K. Dick

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

“Great minds have always seen it. That is why man has survived his journey this long. When we fail to wish any longer to…

— Loren Eiseley

“It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Whole idea of progress - that presence is based on the past, that future generations are going to improve our achievements, and that man…

— Seraphim Rose

“The human psyche was much more flexible than I’d imagined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and seeming impossibilities.”

— Ransom Riggs

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it…

— Bill Moyers

“Even though man himself is mortal, he can imagine neither the end of space nor of time nor of history nor of a people,…

— Milan Kundera