Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 377.
“The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed”
Kulturphilosophie (1923), Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics
Context: The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed … Now come the facts to summon us to reflect. They tell us in terribly harsh language that a civilization which develops only on its material side, and not in the sphere of the spirit … heads for disaster.
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“The features of our face are hardly more than gestures become, by habit, permanent.”
Les traits de notre visage ne sont guère que des gestes devenus, par l'habitude, définitifs.
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Source: In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol II: Within a Budding Grove (1919), Ch. IV: "Seascape, with a Frieze of Girls"
