"There is no life without guilt anyway, at least in the Western world. I think in other civilizations it might be different but if the world is getting Westernized all over, guilt will enter through the technology and democracy and their actions. It will come side by side so there won't be anymore innocent societies in the future I think which in fact is not such a bad thing."

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Source : Source: www.mantlethought.org

Pascal Bruckner

#Technology Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.”
“Youâ€™ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.”
“We have to still develop the IKEA group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.”
“A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.”
“Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?”

Source : "The Hemoglobin Molecule". Scientific American, 211, 65-76, November 1964.
“We spend about 20 percent of our total sleep time in a dream state. For most of us, this means we dream one and a half hours each night or, on the average, spend four years of our lifetime in a dream state.”

Source : Patricia Garfield (1995). “Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
“I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.”
“Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.”

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