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civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest. Charles Caleb Colton
civilization saws ends
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street? Alan Bennett
civilization solitude going-out
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again. Aiden Wilson Tozer
civilization doubt moral
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.
civilization stuff jingles
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. David Mitchell
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
civilization savages fragility
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. Camille Paglia
cosmos stills wanderers
We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. Carl Sagan
cosmos groups awareness
Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.
cosmos earth vastness
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
cosmos existentialism benign
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
cosmos
The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.
cosmos exists life throughout
Life exists throughout the cosmos and is a consequence of matter in the universe. Paul Stamets
cosmos movement possibility
In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos. Deepak Chopra
cosmos cross cultural experience members people ruled seek simply teaches themselves understand
Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God. Jeane Kirkpatrick
cosmos god guy pull pulled supposed
How does a cosmos without a bearded, bathrobed God in the sky pull off all the things that a bearded, bathrobed guy in the sky was supposed to have pulled off? If there was no God who said 'Let there be light,' where did we get all that light? Howard Bloom
vastness consciousness creatures
It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.
vastness messages small-creatures
She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
vastness species
We are one species. We are starstuff.
vastness preference determine
But our preferences do not determine what's true.
vastness facts spirit
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness. Emily Carr
vastness becoming christianity
Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity. Moby