As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques. Charles Lindbergh More Quotes by Charles Lindbergh More Quotes From Charles Lindbergh Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved. Charles Lindbergh earth brain time Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. Charles Lindbergh landscape distance life-is-like Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people. Charles Lindbergh spring war peace We must limit to a reasonable amount the Jewish influence...Whenever the Jewish percentage of total population becomes too high, a reaction seems to invariably occur. It is too bad because a few Jews of the right type are, I believe, an asset to any country. Charles Lindbergh population believe country Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks. Charles Lindbergh flying space use I know there is infinity beyond ourselves. I wonder if there is infinity within. Charles Lindbergh infinity knows wonder Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians. Charles Lindbergh moral christian science We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow. Charles Lindbergh weapons today science We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't even got them here in America, and the farther we get into this war the farther we get away from democracy and freedom. Where is it leading us to, and when will it end? The war might stop this winter, but that is improbable. It may go on for fifty years or more. That also is improbable. The elements are too conflicting and confused to form any accurate judgment of its length. There may be a series of wars, one after another, going on indefinitely. Charles Lindbergh confused winter war It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base. Charles Lindbergh easier honesty ends Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. Charles Lindbergh time life past Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so much myself. Did I not prefer the brown skin that came with exposure to the sun? Charles Lindbergh white justice thinking I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very association with the element of danger they dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound. In flying, I tasted a wine of the gods of which they could know nothing. Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved, or these misers who doled it out like pennies through their antlike days? I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time. Charles Lindbergh wine years art God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. Charles Lindbergh earth-life simple men What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we Charles Lindbergh sweet life death Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? Charles Lindbergh left-hand courage hands How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life? Charles Lindbergh wall wind men Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. Charles Lindbergh real inspirational lying Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control. Charles Lindbergh values individual circumstances I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. Charles Lindbergh destroying expected civilization
