Modern man Quotes

Modern man is sick because he is not whole.

— Carl Jung

I've made no pretence to be a modern man at all, ever.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

“Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“In general modern man has no solutions”

— Alexander Herzen

“Modern man no longer works at what cannot be abbreviated”

— Paul Valéry

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

— Carl Jung

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art.

— Harry Anderson

The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

— Helen Rowland

“The modern man has become a machine for survival, which is largely the result of work of chemicals and genetic codes.”

— Lynne McTaggart

Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening…

— Aldous Huxley

I'm Lord of the wasteland, a modern man of steel. I gather darkness to please me, and I command you to kneel.

— KISS

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

— Oscar Wilde

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

— Walter Lippmann

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an…

— G. Stanley Hall

Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.

— Robert L. Millet

Modern man is assailed on every side and almost without interruption by noise - of the radio, of television, of headlines, of…

— Erich Fromm

“The doctrine of evolution thus takes the place of the old religion in the modern man.320It is no science; it does not…

— Herman Bavinck

Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.

— Fernand Leger

Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life,…

— Anthony Daniels

All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn't know…

— Michel Quoist

A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional.…

— Carlos Castaneda

“The twentieth century will be American. American thought will dominate it. American progress will give it color and direction. American deeds will…

— John dos Passos

None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of…

— Dian Fossey

Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know…

— Wernher von Braun

The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a…

— Carl Jung

Beauty in this Iron Age must turn, From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn, And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn, On…

— Philip Jose Farmer

The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly…

— Pope Paul VI

Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also…

— Russell Kirk

The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of…

— Jeremy Rifkin

“It seems to me that there are three principal scales of time, the present moment, a human lifetime, and the eternal. The…

— Neel Burton

“If greed were not the master of modern man--ably assisted by envy--how could it be that the frenzy of economism does not…

— E.F. Schumacher

The future of mankind seems to be a religious one, and religion can be a way for the modern man or the…

— Sorin Cerin

“Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of…

— Hannah Arendt

“Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from the…

— G.K. Chesterton

“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

“They do not expect that the free right to vote, to enjoy civic rights, and to be educated, will come in a…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“...the hippies of the 1960s did understand something. They were right in fighting the plastic culture, and the church should have been…

— Francis A. Schaeffer