The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough,… — Jean Jaures Copy Share Image
Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories,… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
A human moment is a term I invented to distinguish in-person communication from electronic. Human moments are exponentially more powerful than electronic… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
There are many strengths in modern society, but one of its weaknesses is the breakdown of many of the old structures and… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
He slung off his backpack. He'd managed to grab a lot of supplies at the Napa Bargain Mart: a portable GPS, duct… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
'Millennials' has become a kind of modern swearword, a slur directed at people in their early 20s. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, its parts must be standard and hence replaceable, features which contribute, respectively, to modern… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of… — Emily Procter Copy Share Image
I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss, and I feel like in modern day relationships, and… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock.… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
The thing that amazes me about modern life is you have all these devices that are supposed to make your lives more… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
My dad is an engineer and works on green energy, so I'm very aware of what it takes to keep a modern… — Rachel Boston Copy Share Image
Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
The modern Western world is in many ways a sustained attempt to deal with the unintended and unwanted problems related to the… — Brad Stephan Gregory Copy Share Image
Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world. — Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn Copy Share Image
I've always scribbled, and I still do it. I've written numerous scripts for films for which I think I'd be perfect as… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;"… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a… — William James Copy Share Image
Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
This is an important distinction, because most of the modern philosophies that deny that we can know reality, and ultimately truth, make… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Before modern medicine, would pussies just generally rot up inside you and fall out of you like spoiled oysters on the sidewalk? — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
