The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him. — William James Copy Share Image
“humanity in the west can now easily dismiss any claims of authority by God over human history, when humans are so confident… — Gale Heide Copy Share Image
Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The act of contemplation and what contemplates—to return to our own terminology—are essentially one with the pure Act, pure Being. On the… — Leo Schaya Copy Share Image
“The power of such a mountain is so great and yet so subtle that, without compulsion, people are drawn to it from… — Lama Govinda 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-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
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 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
“I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“In the New Testament, the concept of myth is not simply a harmless feature of a primitive world-view, requiring only to be… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“Anxiety, the other characteristic of modern man, is even more basic than emptiness and loneliness. For being “hollow” and lonely would not… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“A prominent citizen in a small city State, such as Athens or Florence, could without difficulty feel himself important. The earth was… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel,… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know. — Michael Leunig 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
“For someone who is far from God, silence is a difficult confrontation with his own self and with the rather dismal realities… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
Technologically, modern man does everything he can do-he functions on this single boundary principle. Modern man, seeing himself as autonomous, with no… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“And had everything necessary to the Modern Man, A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire. Our researchers into Public Opinion… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
