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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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"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."
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"It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms."
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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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"Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
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"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."
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"No civilization can thrive or survive if it refuses to adapt or change."
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"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely."
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"It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints."
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"All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization."
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"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."
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"I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness. For man's everyday needs, it would have been quite enough to have the ordinary human consciousness, that is, half or a quarter of the amount which falls to the lot of a cultivated man of our unhappy nineteenth century."
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"And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking into these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!"
Dreams
"Perhaps," you will add, grinning, "those who have never been slapped will also not understand" - thereby politely hinting that I, too, may have experienced a slap in my life, and am therefore speaking as a connoisseur."
Wisdom
"Why I would sell the whole world for a single kopek, just so that nobody would bother me. Should the world go to hell, or should I go without my tea now? I'll say let the world go to hell so long as I can have my tea whenever I want it."
Philosophy
"Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires."
Morality
"I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart, I am told this is due to fear."
Justice
"Then this God does exist according to you?""He does not exist, but He is. In the stone there is no pain, but in the fear of the stone is the pain. God is the pain of the fear of death. He who will conquer pain and terror will become himself a god."
Spiritual
"We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him."
Spiritual
"They say, the sun brings life to the world. The sun will rise and look is it not a corpse? Everything is dead and there are corpses everywhere. Just people and around them silence__that is the world! "Love one another"__who said that? Whose command is that? The pendulum swings unfeelingly, antagonistically. It's two o'clock at night. Her slippers are standing by her bed, as if waiting for her.... No, seriously, when they take her away tomorrow, what shall I do?"
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"Oh, tell me, who first declared, who first proclaimed that man only does nasty things because he does not know his own real interests; and that if he were enlightened, if his eyes were opened to his real normal interests, man would at once cease to do nasty things, would at once become good and noble because, being enlightened and understanding his real advantage, he would see his own advantage in the good and nothing else. Oh, the babe! Oh, the pure, innocent child!"
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