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«The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.»
«The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected»
Author: Anton Chekhov
| Keywords:
anxious, civilized, partly, Personal life, privacy, respected, secrecy
«The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being? can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
civilized, divinities, divinity, divinity of Christ, Jesus Christ, pressing, rests, Son, Son of, Son of God, therein, the Son
«Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.»
Author: John Muir
| Keywords:
civilized, fountains, Going Home, irrigate, irrigates, mountain, necessity, nerve, parked, Parks, reservation, Reservations, rivers, River Went, shaken, the Mountain, Thousands, timber, timbered, timbers, tired, useful, wildness
«To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
aesthetic, although, civilized, potentially, preferences, preserves, shocked
«This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.»
«The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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blood, bowing, bows, bow out, civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, flesh, fleshed, Flesh and Blood, idols, savage, savaged, stone, take a bow, wood
«That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abstract, autobiography, civilized, concrete, delightful, fascinating, record, vague
«The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
amusement, blockhead, blockheads, civilized, disbelief, expresses, instruction, liar, loudly, rate, re-creation, recognizes, recreation, recreations, very loudly
«The music masters familiarizes children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole o»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
adjusted, balanced, civilized, familiarize, familiarizes, familiarizing, Masters, melodies, rhythm, rhythms, rhythm and, well-adjusted
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