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  • Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Reality Quotes , Civilization Quotes
  • When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Civilization Quotes , People Quotes