"Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life."

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Source : Ernst Haeckel (1916). “Eternity; World-war Thoughts on Life and Death, Religion, and the Theory of Evolution”

Ernst Haeckel

#Law Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?”
“When does gold ore become gold? When it is put through a process of fire. So the human being during the training becomes as pure as gold through suffering. It is the burning away of the dross. Suffering has a great redeeming quality. As a drop of water failing on the desert sand is sucked up immediately, so we must become nothing and nowhere ... we must disappear.”
“When we talk of architecture, people usually think of something static; this is wrong. What we are thinking of is an architecture similar to the dynamic and musical architecture achieved by the Futurist musician Pratella. Architecture is found in the movement of colours, of smoke from a chimney and in metallic structures, when they are expressed in states of mind which are violent and chaotic.”

Source : "The Painting of Sounds, Noises and Smells" by Carlo Carra (1913), as translated in: Mary Ann Caws "Manifesto: A Century of Isms," p. 203, 2001.
“You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.”

Source : David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.55, Titan Books
“So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.”
“Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.”
“To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.”
“If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.”

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