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"Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-- they cannot work and their civilization collapses."
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"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
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Personal Development
"By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else."
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"The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period."
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"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."
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"This grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on."
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"The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more."
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"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
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"It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization."
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"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."
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"Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages."
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"Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders."
Governance
"And the question of Wester religion, Flattery said, "is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?"
Religion
"Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied."
Religion
"Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite."
Philosophy
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
Courage
"I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?"
Psychology
"A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty, but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both."
Emotion
"A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind."
Danger
"Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?"
Religion
"To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures."
Philosophy
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