Quotes with over-civilization

Quotes 1281 till 1295 of 1295.

  • Helen Keller It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Simone Weil It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Thomas Fuller Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Thomas Fuller Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Martin Luther King One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Our civilization is characterized by the word ''progress.'' Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe Thank Heaven! the crisis - the danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Pablo Picasso The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Pablo Picasso The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Simone Weil The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Ambrose Bierce The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • George Eliot There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds - not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but - a hatred of all injury.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Simone Weil To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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