Modern Quotes

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men stil...

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The great fact all the while however had been the incalculability; since he had supposed himself, fr...

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and th...

The city of Leonia refashions itself every day: every morning the people wake between fresh sheets, ...

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baude...

As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dre...

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can n...

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapi...

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms ag...

I thought of the fate of Descartes’ famous formulation: man as ‘master and proprietor of nature.’ Ha...

In the presence of Esch, values have hidden their faces. Order, loyalty, sacrifice—he cherishes all ...

More modern poetry is written than read.

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashi...

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of...

The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justi...

Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very...

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enor...

All the lot. Their spunk is gone dead. Motor-cars and cinemas and aeroplanes suck that last bit out ...

I think that modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense....

Soon all of you immortalsWill be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for?Have you ...