“When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“I am a modern man with a strong tendency to self-destruction.” — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what' — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man. — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
“The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself.” — Rod Judkins 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
The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot? Maybe the lies are all that we've got But aren't they beautiful?” — Sarah Slean Copy Share Image
One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any… — William E. Rees Copy Share Image
Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Understanding this, Rank could take a great step beyond Freud. Freud thought that modern man’s moral dependence on another was a result… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The artist is always the servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“The fact that Bultmann proceeds from a pastoral and missionary motive - namely, to preserve modern man from rejecting the New Testament… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Can Christian preaching expect modern man to accept the mythical view of the world as true? To do so would be both… — Rudolf Karl Bultmann Copy Share Image
The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Modern man has no real "value" for the ocean. All he has is the most crass form of egoist, pragmatic value for… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
“It is very currently suggested that the modern man is the heir of all the ages, that he has got the good… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. The "sanity" of modern man… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“There is evidence that the honoree [Leonard Cohen] might be privy to the secret of the universe, which, in case you're wondering,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The crux of the worldview conflict... is the denial of God's right to be God, and the usurpation of that right by… — Kevin Swanson Copy Share Image
“One of the most distinguished psychiatrists living, Dr. Carl Jung, says in his book Modern Man in Search of a Soul (*):… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“If evolutionism were to be rejected, the whole structure upon which the modern world is based would collapse and one would have… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“We have all been processed on Procrustean beds. At least some of us have managed to hate what they have made of… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“With the man/animal boundary so deep a part of the Western psyche, it is little wonder that many resist its dismantling on… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
“Something went greatly wrong in our collective history and the starting point of it was the industrial revolution. Our school systems are… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
“Today, modern man has developed in a different direction. We are now far more polarised in our brains than our bodies and… — Richard Rudd Copy Share Image