Modernity Quotes

If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this...

His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abst...

I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.

Anymore, no one's mind is their own.

When we pick up the newspaper at breakfast, we expect - we even demand - that it brings us momentous...

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

We believed in another world, but we admitted the feebleness of our senses. Then came 'enlightenment...

I was thinking about honour. It's a thing that changes doesn't it? I mean, a hundred and fifty years...

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scien...

Miss Millick wondered just what had happened to Mr. Wran. He kept making the strangest remarks when ...

Horse[Man you will find herea new representation of the universeat its most poetic and most modernMa...

You alone in Europe are not ancient oh ChristianityThe most modern European is you Pope Pius XAnd yo...

The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it g...

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing ...

The West Indian is not exactly hostile to change, but he is not much inclined to believe in it. This...

Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechan...

In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love.

Christmas ought to be brought up to date,” Maria said. “It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes a...

It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when ...

Today, the language of the market penetrates every pore and forces every interpersonal relation into...

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallo...

The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only...

In February 1912, ancient China came to an end when the last of three millennia of Chinese emperors ...

It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it...

Extravagance of desire is the fundamental cause which has led the world into its present predicament...

It is comforting, however, and a source of profound relief to think that man is only a recent invent...

Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat diff...

And think about the precise meaning of that term: a Narcissus is not proud. A proud man has disdain ...

Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, a...

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what t...

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and ...

Every little thing makes a difference, whether you decide it yourself or whether it’s pure accident....

This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, tha...

There is certainly no hope left of getting away. And it isn't even terrible; it's possibly funny, if...

It was the Kojagar full moon, and I was slowly pacing the riverside conversing with myself. It could...

The resource of generational history is accorded little attention our society, which seems ever more...

All he really knew was that if he stayed here he would soon be the property of things that buzzed an...

Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this o...

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the ...

Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was eman...

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the ...

It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is...

And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people:Their only monument the asphalt roadAnd a t...

What constitutes the pleasure of the traveler is the obstacle, the fatigue, the peril itself. What p...

If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy...

The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappo...

It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....

Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization tea...

What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a...

This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the sourc...

When nations grow old the Arts grow coldAnd commerce settles on every tree

To live in modernity--an era contemporaneous with the triumph of the news--is to be constantly remin...

It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.