“The sole perfection which modern civilization attains is a mechanical one; machines are splendid and flawless, but the life which serves them or is served by them, is neither superb nor brilliant, nor more perfect nor more graceful; nor is the work of the machines perfect; only they, the machines, are like gods.” PerfectModernCivilizationPerfectionMachinesBrilliantSoleSplendidSuperbFlawlessModern Civilization Author:Karel Capek
“Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.” GivingHumansArtFeelingsLyingHumanityConsciousnessMillionsReadyCivilizationAchievementPerfectionSunsetFiniteEvokeSpursElation Author:Alfred North Whitehead
“Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol, and other substances, there are psychological addictions, such as the addiction to work, sex, television, melodrama, and perfection.” SexNumbersTelevisionCivilizationDiseasePerfectionAddictionAlcoholPsychologicalSubstanceRelatedMelodramaNicotine Author:Deepak Chopra
“There's just no - nothing like this country, which is the only, really, multiracial country that's tried to share in a common culture in the history of civilization that's pulled it off. A lot of the times, we want perfection. If we're not perfect, we're not good.” IfsWantCountryCulturePerfectCommonShareCivilizationPerfectionNot PerfectMultiracialCommon Culture Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.” WorldHas BeensNaturalGreaterCivilizationOffersPerfectionWineAppreciationRangeEnjoymentCivilizedSensoryTastingNatural ThingsFood And WineDrinking WineGreat WineBest WineOld WineFunny WineWine And LoveWine ToastWine LoveWine LoversFrench WineWine TastingChardonnay WineWine Drinkers Book:The Hemingway Collection Source: The Hemingway Collection
“Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.” LastsReligionFallChurchAtheismCivilizationStonesPerfectionAtheistPriestsOrganized Religion Author:Emile Zola
“In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard's canvases--beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.” MenArtEarthDangerousCivilizationGardenPerfectionCodeSpiteStringsSavagesClayGrandeurRefinementTabletsQuartetsString Quartets Book:The vampire Lestat Source: The vampire Lestat
“The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.” ReasonHumanityCivilizationWeaponsPerfectionDestructionInstrumentsSolePhilanthropic Author:Jules Verne
“Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in realizing one’s being and in achieving one’s own perfection within the fixed parameters that one’s individual nature and the group to which one belonged clearly defined. Economic activity, work, and profit were justified only in the measure in which they were necessary for sustenance and to ensure the dignity of an existence conformed to one’s own estate, without the lower instinct of self-interest or profit coming first.” FirstsSelfIndividualSocialInterestRealizingExistenceGroupsEconomicAchieveCivilizationActivityEthicsCapitalismDignityPerfectionThirdsInstinctWestProfitDefinedFixedEstatesJustifiedSelf InterestAdventSustenanceParameters Author:Julius Evola
“Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a world of his imagining. Art accounts for at least a third of our civilization, and it is one of the artist's principal duties to do more than merely record life or nature. To the artist is given the privilege of pointing the way and inspiring towards a better life.” MenWorldWayArtRealityArtistGivenRecordsDutyCivilizationArt IsPerfectionThirdsAccountsPrivilegeReality Of LifePrincipalPointingBetter LifeCraving Author:Paul Outerbridge
“What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in a period of youth. We are only now beginning to acquire a consciousness of the social aim of civilization, which is man's perfection. Such perfection can never end with physical perfection, which is only the means to the end or spiritual perfection.” MenMeanStillsEndsSelfSpiritualPurposeHumanitySocialConsciousnessMankindYouthPeriodsCivilizationPerfectionUltimateAimAcquireMasonicMasonrySpiritual Perfection Author:Albert Pike