My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
He who doesn't modernize himself doesn't live the present and will not live the future. — Jean-Paul Malfatti 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
“Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity.” — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“Nothing like a hot cup of black filtered coffee, none of that fancy espresso crap. Especially from those new pod machines. What… — Caspar Vega Copy Share Image
“On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of… — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society. — Mario Vargas Llosa 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
Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the strivings of the human… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the… — Alexander Kluge Copy Share Image
“The question of the relation between modernity and postmodernity revolves around the issue of 'legitimation.' Modernity, then, appeals to science to legitimate… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“It is as if the mission of modernity was to squeeze every drop of variability and randomness out of life— with the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
There is reason to be scared. Look at what has happened with fundamentalism - this is a reaction against modernity. It happens… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers,… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“The West Indian is not exactly hostile to change, but he is not much inclined to believe in it. This comes from… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and… — James Shapiro 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
“In a feast of fame and talks, Scandal flashing, raising tongue and brows. In a blast of bombing and power play, Fear… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
“In al-Qaeda we see a terrorist grouping with, in many ways, a medieval ideology, employing today's technology to great advantage. It works… — Eliza Manningham-Buller Copy Share Image
“It was Daisuke's conviction that all morality traced its origins to social realities. He believed there could be no greater confusion of… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
“Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“In this pilgrimage in search of modernity I lost my way at many points only to find myself again. I returned to… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
