Civilization Quote by William Harvey Download Open image “Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.” — William Harvey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Nature Series Victory
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 Copy Share Image
Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction. — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine. — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Harvey sought for truth in Truth's own book- Creation - which by God himself was writ;And wisely thought 'twas fitNot to read comments only… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of the body… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
I have often wondered and even laughed at those who fancied that everything had been so consummately and absolutely investigated by an Aristotle or… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their faith to… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
“...I found the task so truly arduous... that I was almost tempted to think... that the movement of the heart was only to be… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known. — William Harvey Copy Share Image
The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which… — William Harvey 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
