To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one’s own moral aesthetic preferences.
Oliver Wendell Holmes quote: “To be civilized is to be potentially…”
A quotation from the American writer, Oliver Wendell Holmes
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