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Knajjd
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Plato - ancient Greek democracy will always decline into tyranny.
Aristotle - did not believe in progress due to the cult of youth and it's forgetfulness of the past.
Augustine - "if infants do not injure, it is for a lack of strength, not for lack of will".
Italian Renaissance - despite the art there was beneath it a sense of loss of an old wisdom and beauty.
De Tocqueville - Protestant and Puritan virtues in the USA replaced by rampant self-interest which destroys democracy.
Nietzsche - the glory of ancient Greece was a way for the Greeks to conceal the horror of the brutality of life.
Sengler - The Decline of the West; modern life is a civilization of technical merit and not a culture where art and religion can flourish. In a civilization men lose their identity.
Quantum Physics - I read, I don't recall where, that physics has not advanced since the 1920s, because the work of that period is the peak the human mind can reach.
Aristotle - did not believe in progress due to the cult of youth and it's forgetfulness of the past.
Augustine - "if infants do not injure, it is for a lack of strength, not for lack of will".
Italian Renaissance - despite the art there was beneath it a sense of loss of an old wisdom and beauty.
De Tocqueville - Protestant and Puritan virtues in the USA replaced by rampant self-interest which destroys democracy.
Nietzsche - the glory of ancient Greece was a way for the Greeks to conceal the horror of the brutality of life.
Sengler - The Decline of the West; modern life is a civilization of technical merit and not a culture where art and religion can flourish. In a civilization men lose their identity.
Quantum Physics - I read, I don't recall where, that physics has not advanced since the 1920s, because the work of that period is the peak the human mind can reach.