“I am a modern man with a strong tendency to self-destruction.” — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot? Maybe the lies are all that we've got But aren't they beautiful?” — Sarah Slean Copy Share Image
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm. — Allen Carr Copy Share Image
“Can Christian preaching expect modern man to accept the mythical view of the world as true? To do so would be both… — Rudolf Karl Bultmann Copy Share Image
One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any… — William E. Rees Copy Share Image
The artist is always the servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
“...through reading, the modern man succeeds in obtaining an "escape from time" comparable to the "emegence from time" effected by myths. (...)… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Comrades in the struggle! The position of modern man is not merely lamentable; one might even say that there is no condition,… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
“…modern man no longer communicates with the madman […] There is no common language: or rather, it no longer exists; the constitution… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. The "sanity" of modern man… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams… — Gary Valentine Copy Share Image
Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Modern man's narrow-mindedness is best shown in his belief that there is no riddle before him. His wisdom is the sum of… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The future of mankind seems to be a religious one, and religion can be a way for the modern man or the… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“You don't understand that one can be an atheist, one can not know whether God exists or why, and at the same… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“I believe that any Christian who is qualified to write a good popular book on any science may do much more by… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Modern man, brought up on Kantian idealism, regards nature as being no more than an outcome of the laws of the mind.… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“This Christian claim [of universal validity] is naturally offensive to the adherents of every other religious system. It is almost as offensive… — Stephen Neill Copy Share Image
“The 'Other Half' is the word. The 'Other Half' is an organism. Word is an organism. The presence of the 'Other Half'… — William S. Burroughs 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
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions. — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
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