Modern Quotes · Page 47

Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it…

— Herbert Read

Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social…

— Richard Linklater

It seems to me that we spend most of our spiritual energies trying to explain why the God of Elijah, Samson, David,…

— Eric Ludy

In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it…

— Daniel Pipes

Modern physics has... revealed that every sub-atomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating…

— Fritjof Capra

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

— John Walford

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

In part I'm just mystified. Here's a woman, Hillary [Clinton], who wrote a book about it takes a "village" to raise children.…

— Peter Breggin

After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for…

— Jonathan Culler

Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for…

— Noam Chomsky

I really wanted to do 'Modern Family,' and I really liked the script, and I liked the people.

— Craig T. Nelson

I think [forgiveness] may be the greatest virtue on earth, and certainly the most needed. There is so much of meanness and…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel…

— Gustave Eiffel

You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and…

— Newt Gingrich

The great irony is that people who live in remote areas, who are illiterate and don't own TVs, are in some ways…

— Arundhati Roy

Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy.

— Ted Malloch

The modern Australia, the Australia of the 21st Century, Malcolm Turnbull's Australia has nothing to do with the kind of protectionist and…

— George Brandis

Modern responses to Cinderella's predicament are interesting. If you're not careful, you'll think, "Well, she's just a big wimp. She should fight…

— Chris Weitz

A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

— Eminem

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

— Shawn Achor

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

— Sylvester Stallone