Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, western, civilization and/or europe:
“The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.”
—E.M. Cioran (1911–1995)
“We go to Europe to be Americanized.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)