It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.
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I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.
I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said it before. I don't know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
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