“I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“We leven langer, maar minder nauwkeurig en in kortere zinnen.” — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
“Modernity proclaims rights without in any way providing the means to exercise them.” — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from. — Sylvain Tesson Copy Share Image
“Modernity is kind of a tradition and tradition itself is not a rulebook. It's a dialogue and a dialectical process— just as… — Sharanya Haridas Copy Share Image
“The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was… — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop… — James Shikwati Copy Share Image
“Although we, as Christians, are living in Sodom, we are not to become citizens of Sodom. . The story of Sodom is… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“If a man erects any barriers at all to those he would consider his companions, he is condemned as a bigot. Modernity… — Tanner Cook Copy Share Image
Animism is worth considering (a) because it exists, (b) because it addresses contemporary issues and debates, and (c) because it clarifies, in… — Graham Harvey Copy Share Image
If you say the world is totally dependent on oil in many parts of the world, coal and certainly natural gas, we… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
“Modernity, though, is often surprisingly difficult to "locate." Certainly modernity cannot be defined as the surpassing of earlier forms of brutality. Perhaps… — Alexander Edmonds Copy Share Image
If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists… — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence -… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the… — Marshall Berman Copy Share Image
“Multitasking is a highly overrated thing if you ask me. Today, we do everything in twos and threes. There is no longer… — Anirudh Arun Copy Share Image
Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world. But not… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In "solid modernity" difference was tolerated as a temporary irritant only, expected to disappear tomorrow, when "those aliens" will become like us.… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“The resource of generational history is accorded little attention our society, which seems ever more obsessed with making “new” and “better” synonymous.… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values… — Nicolas Bourriaud Copy Share Image
“Advances in communication technology foster a false fantasy of togetherness by transmitting the impression of contact- phone calls, faxes, e-mail- without its… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive. — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
“The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.” — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“We have become so preoccupied in clicking, capturing and caging memories that we have forgotten to live them first.” — Mitali Meelan Copy Share Image
