“Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Modern man, instead of attempting to raise himself to truth, seeks to drag truth down to his own level.” — René Guénon Copy Share Image
Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right. — Milton S. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man. — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.” — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence. — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards. — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“Trauma is the great masquerader and participant in many maladies and “dis-eases” that afflict sufferers. It can perhaps be conjectured that unresolved… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
For millenia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Making sure there are good jobs that pay a decent wage in every part of the country means backing hi-tech companies, modern… — Liz Kendall Copy Share Image
Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage?… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted… — Romano Guardini Copy Share Image
“In the New Testament, the concept of myth is not simply a harmless feature of a primitive world-view, requiring only to be… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“What an irony that modern man, engaged as he is in the pursuit of knowledge, allows himself to be stymied by the… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
“The modern man needs to catch on to the fact that women want to be treated as equals, but only when it… — Jodi Ellen Malpas Copy Share Image
“humanity in the west can now easily dismiss any claims of authority by God over human history, when humans are so confident… — Gale Heide Copy Share Image
“Disgusted by the abuses to which it led, humanity repressed Christianity by which it had so long been dominated. Repressed, but not… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows 'what he wants,' while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“A sentence in Auden's Airman's Journal has always seemed very profound to me ---I haven't the book here so I can't quote… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“Modern man is exposed to an almost unceasing “noise,” the noise of the radio, television, headlines, advertising, the movies, most of which… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Positivist man is a curious creature who dwells in the tiny island of light composed of what he finds scientifically "meaningful," while… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“The great prophetic work of the modern world is Goethe’s Faust , so little appreciated among the Anglo-Saxons. Mephistopheles offers Faust unlimited… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“But the new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is not law, in any conceivable form, that is responsible for the tensions and alienation besetting modern man; rather, it is… — René Girard Copy Share Image
“In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“There is no religion and no philosophy that can give us a comprehensive answer to the whole of our problems, and the… — Erich Neumann Copy Share Image
“Liberalism has been degraded into liberality. Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb. The Jacobin could… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
