A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
