“Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“Today, the language of the market penetrates every pore and forces every interpersonal relation into the schema of individual preference.” — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The scientific and societal achievements of the modern age are undisputable. But after the French Revolution, modernity increasingly emancipated itself from Christian… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most… — Hamid Dabashi Copy Share Image
If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term. — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Throughout early modernity there were very strong pressures on Jews to assimilate. Assimilating meant cutting your ties with the community of origin. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power.… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Simple yet succinct, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals exposes the idols of modernity and provides the biblical… — Daniel L. Akin Copy Share Image
Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Pre-high tech, objects thunked and crashed and clopped, amid a thunder of drums, a tumult of trumpets. Today things beep and cheep… — A.J. Orde Copy Share Image
The essential of a real picture is that the things which occur in it occur to him in his peculiarly personal fashion..… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
“Originality' is the sickness of modernity that wishes to see itself as something new, always new, in order continually to witness its… — Carlos Fuentes 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
“Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many… — David F. Ford 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
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
Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Christmas ought to be brought up to date,” Maria said. “It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It is necessary to go back to our age old beliefs to save our ethos which are on the decline due to… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“Don’t let the modern love change you too much that you forget what it is to live with kindness and compassion. From… — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
“Modernity is a busy place, spinning with silicon speed that goes ever faster but never forward, people pressed into cities full of… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity'… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“and here is where unsentimental history and statistical literacy can change our view of modernity, for they show that nostalgia for a… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“I attended a symposium, an event named after a fifth century (B.C.) Athenian drinking party in which nonnerds talked about love; alas,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
