Logo
It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages. – Alfred North Whitehead

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Civilization
category

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Civilization

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

Category:
Civilization

Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long… – Ogden Nash, “Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours,” New Yorke

Category:
Civilization

Civilization is the lambs skin in which barbarism masquerades. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Category:
Civilization

Random Quotes

…the cypress tree is turning green, drunk with the forest. – Rumi

Category:
Rumi

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeares characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality. – Kenneth Branagh

Category:
Courage

All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies. – Thomas E. Mann

Category:
Leadership

The key to education is the experience of beauty. – Friedrich Schiller

Category:
Beauty