Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less. ” — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I am actually a perfectly capable modern man who can cook, clean, wash, and find my way to places, but nobody believes… — James May Copy Share Image
“The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the… — George Will Copy Share Image
Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The future of mankind seems to be a religious one, and religion can be a way for the modern man or the… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions. — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Modern man is assailed on every side and almost without interruption by noise - of the radio, of television, of headlines, of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Beauty in this Iron Age must turn, From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn, And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn, On… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“The twentieth century will be American. American thought will dominate it. American progress will give it color and direction. American deeds will… — John dos Passos Copy Share Image
None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
“I believe that any Christian who is qualified to write a good popular book on any science may do much more by… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The actor, like the modern man of reason, must have his place determined and his lines memorized before he goes on stage.… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“Modern man, brought up on Kantian idealism, regards nature as being no more than an outcome of the laws of the mind.… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“Yet there is one experience which most sincere ex-Communists share, whether or not they go only part way to the end of… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
“...the delicate arrangements and systems that made life on the outside so easy; the massive industries balanced on knife-edge adjustments; the handful… — William Mulvihill Copy Share Image
“I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“If it is true that the ability to be puzzled is the beginning of wisdom, then this truth is a sad commentary… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. Modern man's happiness consists… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The pagan gods are not dead, but can return to topple science with superstition and modern man with bestial pleasures that pre-date… — Richard Luckhurst Copy Share Image
I'm job-obsessed and part of modern management now is to know what's going on around the world. — Eddie Howe Copy Share Image
It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“modern man tries to replace vital awe and wonder with a “How to do it” manual.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers. — Nicholas Eberstadt Copy Share Image
“modern man is the victim of his own disillusionment; he has been disinherited by his own analytic strength.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“And then the two basic ideals of modern man- without them he is unthinkable- the idea of free personality and the idea… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist” — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image