Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with a raunchy sexual reductionism, despairing scientism, morally normless cultural r...
...the hippies of the 1960s did understand something. They were right in fighting the plastic culture, and the church should have been fighting it too... More than this, they were right in the fact that the plastic culture - modern man, the mechanist...
Eva walked along the wall that held all of Michael's books. Shelves of science texts - physics, astronomy, a full set of Darwin's writings, new works in biomedical genetics - these were at the bottom, and books on philosophy and religion at the top. ...
Of course, to avoid getting stuck in that convo with someone you dislike or feel uncomfortable around, don't be passive, be proactive. Do not let them direct your interaction on their terms, do it on yours. Ask a Misdirection Question--something too ...
Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For ...
People who have made comparative studies of many different societies, know that when status is ascribed, rather than achieved, individual efforts towards excellence are not directed through any form of innovation; rather, the enhancement of status oc...
In 1940, we knew who we were, we knew who the enemy was, we knew the dangers and the issues," he told me when I pressed him for a reading of the struggle against Islamic radicalism. "In our island, we knew we would prevail, that the Americans would b...
Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.
This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.
Dead or alive, you will retain all your rights.
You strip away every ounce of civility in me, Selene” - Levi
...it is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.
One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.
