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"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism."
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"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."
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"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
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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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"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."
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"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!"
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"For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization."
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"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."
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"Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization."
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"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."
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"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism."
Civilization
"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides."
Adversity
"Children always turn to the light."
Children
"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."
Nature
"Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor."
Truth
"When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths."
Frogs
"Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity."
Strength
"The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry."
Poetry
"Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth."
Earth
"To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin."
God
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