Civilization Quote by Will Durant Download Open image “The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.” — Will Durant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Culture Dies Faith Religion Soul Spirituality
When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Most cultures believe, and most religions believe, that there is a spirit, there is a soul, there is something that happens when we die… — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred than a… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“All those fascinating varieties of terrain—mountains and valleys, fiords and straits, gulfs and streams—that make Europe a panorama of diverse delight, have broken the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
