[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature.
Dorothy L. SayersTags: style writing civilization literature creative-process culture craft crudeness craftsmanship selling-out
By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was divided between the Persian and Byzantine empires. But with the spread of this new religion from Arabia, a powerful empire emerged, and with it a flourishing civilization and a glorious golden age.
Given how far back it stretches in time, the history of the region -- and even of Iraq itself -- is too big a canvas for me to paint. Instead, what I hope to do in this book is take on the nonetheless ambitious task of sharing with you a remarkable story; one of an age in which great geniuses pushed the frontiers of knowledge to such an extent that their work shaped civilizations to this day.
Tags: knowledge civilization islam arab middle-east
It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.
Douglas AdamsTags: humor civilization logic h2g2 hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy wonko-the-sane
I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: life philosophy civilization depression
So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
Will DurantTags: science history civilization history-repeating-itself commanding-nature eternal-recurrence
Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that climbs, one over another, to the sky - under each bulb - down to there, see that spark over the river which is not a star? - there are people whom you will never see and who are your masters. At the supper tables, in the drawing rooms, in their beds and in their cellars, in their studies and in their bathrooms. Speeding in the subways under your feet. Crawling up in elevators through vertical cracks around you. Jolting past you in every bus. Your masters, Gail Wynand. There is a net - longer than the cables that coil through the walls of this city, larger than the mesh of pipes that carry water, gas and refuse - there is another hidden net around you; it is strapped to you, and the wires lead to every hand in the city. They jerked the wires and you moved. You were a ruler of men. You held a leash. A leash is only a rope with a noose at both ends.
Ayn RandTags: society democracy civilization living slave leader mob-rule master follower masses
تكون الفرد المسلم تكوناً صحيحاً منذ ابتداء الدعوة الإسلامية في مكة المكرمة، ثم كان تلاقي الأفراد عند الهجرة على ما يؤلف بينهم من العوامل المتقاربة، فبرز المجتمع الإسلامي .. ولم يكن لهذا المجتمع أول تألفه، ثقافة ولا حضارة، ثم إن الدين بأوضاعه الذهنية والخارجية، هو الذي فتح له باب الاتصال بالمعارف ليتلقاها، ويؤلف بينها، ويجدد وضعها، فتمهدت له بذلك السبيل إلى ثقافته، حتى أبرز من روائعها الخالدات، فلولا التكون الفردي المكي، والتكون الاجتماعي المدني، لما كانت آثار الحضارة التي تبدت في دمشق، أو بغداد، أو القيروان، أو قرطبة، أو سمرقند.
محمد الفاضل بن عاشورTags: civilization islam
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
Wendell BerryTags: fear truth civilization loneliness consumerism spirituality culture depression anxiety seeking
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
Joseph de MaistreTags: civilization religion sacrifice divine order altar
Old Rekohu’s claim to singularity, however, lay in its unique pacific creed. Since time immemorial, the Moriori’s priestly caste dictated that whosoever spilt a man’s blood killed his own mana - his honor, his worth, his standing
David MitchellTags: peace war civilization utopia
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