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"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."
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"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."
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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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"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."
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"To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization."
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"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
Beauty
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
Information
"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."
Civilization
"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."
Evil
"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."
Reason
"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."
Criticism
"The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race."
Trust
"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."
Faith
"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake."
Art
"The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink."
Life
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