Literature is map of humanity, the documenter of civilization. Books introduce us to the landscape of the greatest minds of every century.
– Kilroy J Oldster
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- The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as -œthe century of superficiality. – Billy Graham
- Telling our personal story reveals the shape shifting landscape of our mind. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara W Tuchman
- How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don’t care for the landscape itself? – William Morris
- Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds. – Kilroy J Oldster
- The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. – Sigmund Freud
- The deep map configures narratives. It is a matrix of intertexual storytelling, charting our movements through the landscape. – Linda Lappin
- The human spirit’s unquenchable drive for originality and compulsion for creating art is the compelling force of our humanity. – Kilroy J Oldster
- A person’s greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity. – Kilroy J Oldster
- I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. – Nick Hornby
- Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map. – Stephen King
- If the map doesn’t agree with the ground the map is wrong – Gordon Livingston
- A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world. – Rebecca Solnit
- It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. – Ron Paul
- Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences. – Martin Amis
- Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. – Washington Irving
- Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. – Henry Thomas Buckle
- Great minds believe they will succeed.Average minds doubt they can succeed.Small minds don’t even try to succeed. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones? – Onyi Anyado
- Great minds birth great ideas.Extraordinary minds birth extraordinary ideas.Transcendent minds birth transcendent ideas. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Civilization must be preserved,’ says he.’Civilization’s doing fine,’ I said. ‘We just don’t happen to be where it is. – Joanna Russ
- The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination. – James Hillman
- Culture is the best society has to offer…How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan) – Beth Fine
- Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies. – Fernand Braudel
- Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end. – Haruki Murakami
- America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be. – AA Gill
- Literature is humanity’s broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It’s humanity without the judgement. – Glen Duncan
- Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast. – Julien Torma
- Humanity must need to continue because humanity is about humans and humans are nothing without humanity. – Zaman Ali
- Humanity was awful; humanity made you hurt. Humanity was a weakness that would kill everyone, one way or another. – Andrea Speed
- Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. – Joyce Carol Oates
- A miserable scrooge whom lacks charity for the entire world is a menace to society. Spiritual sullenness destroys men quicker than gunfire. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Large families are communities unto their own. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Courage is an act of grace when it is not required; it originates from an inner necessity to honor, love, and cherish people, and respect oneself. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Self-realization, which leads to purity of the soul, requires forgiving our enemies and working on the most horrendous modules of oneself. – Kilroy J Oldster
- A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Nature blessed every person with the innate capacity to express wonder and awe for the eternal world and act with a kind and unstinting soul. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Self-questioning and a desire to gain self-understanding is the f̻ted act of humankind. РKilroy J Oldster
- Every person lives bounded by the structural formation of human anatomy and the provincial demands of the human condition. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Death does not mark the end of a chapter in a man’s life, but the end of a book of man, the beautiful conclusion to his yearnings. – Kilroy J Oldster