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“The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.”

Two Difficult Civilization Draws Ears Rings Boundaries Noses Civilized Savages Barbarism

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.”

Should Humans May Important Reason Individual Force Difficult Growth Principles Depends Civilization Prove Essentials Tasks Limitation Bows Preservation Human Reason

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.”

Difficult Perspective Civilization Tasks Historical Western Patterns Finished Analysis Variation Western Civilization Difficult Tasks Historical Change

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“Perhaps the inevitable tragedy of our complex civilization is that we must be specialists in our fields - and our fields have become increasingly difficult, so that communication is nearly impossible.”

Difficult Impossible Fields Communication Civilization Tragedy Complexes Inevitable Specialists Specialization

Book:Joyce Carol Oates: Conversations, 1970-2006

Source: Joyce Carol Oates: Conversations, 1970-2006

“There may be organic life out there, or maybe machines created by long-dead civilizations, but any signals, even if they are difficult to decode, would tell us that the concepts of logic and physics are not limited to the hardware in human skulls, and will transform our view of the universe.”

Ifs Life Humans May Long Universe Difficult Views Civilization Concepts Logic Machines Physics Signals Skulls Hardware Organic Life

Author:Martin Rees