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European civilization
«Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
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«Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.»
Author: Arthur Koestler
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civilizations, cursed, cursed with, European, European civilization, heritage, mathematical, occurred, Pythagorean, Twenty Five
«To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Civilization
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European, European civilization
«I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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Catholic, degraded, European, European civilization, Greek, nourished, renounce
«We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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applies, European, European civilization, prostitution, slavery, The Europeans, vanished