Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Download Customize

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Pin Share Tweet Telegram
Topics
civilization illusions truth

More “Civilization” Quotes

Horror is the law of the world of living creatures, and civilization is concerned with masking that truth. Literature an — Czesław Miłosz
Our civilization will, of course, be "playing God" in an ultimate sense of the phrase: evolving a greater intelligence t — William H. Calvin, How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then And Now
The human mind is a lucky little local, passing accident which was totally unforeseen, and condemned to disappear with t — Guy de Maupassant
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple t — Freeman Dyson, Infinite in All Directions
I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to — Kenneth Clark, Civilisation
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Though we became experimental creatures of our own devising, it’s important to bear in mind that we had no inkling of th — Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress
Thanks to this availability of suitable wild mammals and plants, early peoples of the Fertile Crescent could quickly ass — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The ve — Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking
I see, in place of that empty figment of one linear history which can be kept up only by shutting one’s eyes to the over — Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West
...we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies needed to cure them. — Livy, The Early History of Rome: