By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“ Ella let out a squeal when I picked her up, “Jonathan!” I loved carrying her around in my arms. After all,… — R. Matthews Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare, in some sense, helped create the modern man, didn't he, his influence is that pervasive. He held the mirror up to… — Jess Winfield Copy Share Image
The modern man, finding that Humanism and Sex both fail to satisfy, seeks his happiness in Science ... But Science fails too,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“ Escape from Freedom attempts to show, modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all… — Erich Fromm 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
Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into… — James May Copy Share Image
Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel,… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
“The reductio ad absurdum of M.D.'s view, I argued, was that science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The apps on your iPhone, designed in Cupertino, California, are coded by self-exploiting independent software engineers, depend on chips that are assembled… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
The notion of dream interpretation far antedates the birth of psychoanalysis, and probably served an important function in most, if not all,… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man… — Robert E. Neale Copy Share Image
Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This… — Lewis Mumford 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
“Vestigial remnants of hunter behavior manifests itself as douchebaggery in males when confronted with the emasculating role of modern man, where they… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred.… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“I mean to keep the remaining shots for people in the shameful state you and I were in last night—I wish we… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“To the extent that propaganda is based on current news, it cannot permit time for thought or reflection. A man caught up… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“You were saying that the kind of man Robert was is hard to find,” she said. Yes…it is.” I thought you were… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
“At Camp Don Bosco, there were Bibles all over the place, mostly 1970s hippie versions like Good News for Modern Man. They… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“The outstanding characteristic of Western scholarship is its specialization and cutting up of knowledge into different departments. The over-development of logical thinking… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“The act of contemplation and what contemplates—to return to our own terminology—are essentially one with the pure Act, pure Being. On the… — Leo Schaya 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
The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of… — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble.… — Ferdinand Mount 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
The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas… — Brendan Rodgers Copy Share Image
Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from,… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
Modern managers have a lot of demands on them, and many feel, with justification, that they do not have the time to… — Paul Scholes Copy Share Image
“This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world. He is the Wise who knows not.… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
“Modern man became a Prometheus, believing himself a god capable of transforming anything and everything at will. “When God has become invisible… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
