There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.