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"Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity."
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"If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex."
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"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
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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 first requisite of civilization is that of justice."
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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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"After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for protection--not only from the big predatory cats but, as they began to lose their monkey fur, from the elements. Eventually, they started transposing their hunting fantasies onto cave walls in the form of pictures, first as an attempt at practical magic and later for the strange, unexpected pleasure they discovered in artistic creation. Time passed. Art came off the walls and turned into ritual. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present mindless, voracious trajectory, could land those of us lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again."
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"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."
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"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
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"A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society."
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"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."
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"This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul."
Poetry
"There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry."
Poetry
"It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip."
Language
"Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries."
Comedy
"Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion."
Time
"Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one."
Poetry
"True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know."
Poetry
"In reality art is always for everyone and for no one."
Art
"I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?"
God
"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."
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