Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. – Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva Category: Civilization
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky Category: Civilization
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855 Category: Civilization
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. – Martin Luther Category: Faith
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl. – Tahar Ben Jelloun Category: Friendship
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. – Nicolaus Copernicus Category: Knowledge
