top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization."
Standard
Customized
More
"A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance."
Author Name
Personal Development
"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in most cases read one book of opinions written hundreds or thousands of years ago and think that they have factual answers to all the questions in the world."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief."
Trust
"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."
Character
"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism."
Love
"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."
Emotional
"Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone."
Happiness
"A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist."
Psychology
"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
Religion
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
Family
"Anatomy is destiny."
Destiny
"We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality."
Life
bottom of page