The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science. — Edmund Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy. — Frank A. Clark Copy Share Image
“Modern man’s misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
I have no problems with buying tampons. I am a fairly modern man. But apparently they're not a "proper" present. "Happy birthday,… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of evolution thus takes the place of the old religion in the modern man.320It is no science; it does not… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional.… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life,… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn't know… — Michel Quoist Copy Share Image
“It’s so savage. So primitive.” “Modern man isn’t far behind. Think of the Nazis in WWII. The Serbs in Bosnia. Khmer Rouge.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'To All The Boys' is one film amongst a couple other romantic comedies through the decades that promotes... I don't know what… — Noah Centineo Copy Share Image
Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The entire hominid collection known today would barely cover a billiard table, ... the collection is so tantalizingly incomplete, and the specimens… — John Reader Copy Share Image
“As Jewish historian Yuri Slezkine noted, modernity has turned us all into Jews. ("The Jewish Century," 2004.) Modernism is the dysfunction that… — Henry Makow Copy Share Image
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“All the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A written word is the choicestof relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This Christian claim [of universal validity] is naturally offensive to the adherents of every other religious system. It is almost as offensive… — Stephen Neill Copy Share Image
“The 'Other Half' is the word. The 'Other Half' is an organism. Word is an organism. The presence of the 'Other Half'… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans; we know very well how far off we live. 'Neither by land nor by sea… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need… — Franz Winkler Copy Share Image
“A prominent citizen in a small city State, such as Athens or Florence, could without difficulty feel himself important. The earth was… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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“The archetypal image of the redeemer serpent is certainly placed here in opposition to the serpents of evil that battle with it.… — Erich Neumann Copy Share Image
“Modern man is determined to believe; that he has demonstrated by the very strength with which he has clutched at absurdities, at… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from… — Robin Day Copy Share Image
“Unlike the ancients, modern man does not see Mother Earth as some kind of goddess like Gaia, the ancestral mother of all… — Barista Uno Copy Share Image
Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the… — William James Copy Share Image
“Anxiety, the other characteristic of modern man, is even more basic than emptiness and loneliness. For being “hollow” and lonely would not… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
![“This Christian claim [of universal validity] is naturally offensive to the adherents of every other religious system. It is almost as offensive to modern man, brought up in the atmosphere of relativism, in which tolerance is regarded almost as the highest of the virtues. But we must not suppose…” quote by Stephen Neill](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/53f/stephen-neill-47678_jesus_this-christian-claim-of-universal-validi_1552525.jpg)
