“Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
I have no problems with buying tampons. I am a fairly modern man. But apparently they're not a "proper" present. "Happy birthday,… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“Modern man’s misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy. — Frank A. Clark Copy Share Image
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
Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science. — Edmund Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist” — Fernand Leger 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
Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“As a modern man, Ziegler had an infinite respect not only for money but also for that other powerful force – science.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The positive sum of pleasures in a modern man's life is undoubtedly greater than was to be found in more primitive communities,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Without noise, postmodern man falls into a dull, insistent uneasiness. He is accustomed to permanent background noise, which sickens yet reassures him.” — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
“Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Modern managers have a lot of demands on them, and many feel, with justification, that they do not have the time to… — Paul Scholes Copy Share Image
“The catastrophe slumbering in the womb of theoretical culture is gradually beginning to frighten modern man; in other words, he is beginning… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's power. With it… — William Barrett 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
Faulkner speaks to us on the questions of race, the challenges of modernity, and modern man's dilemma in all of its aspects.… — David Milch Copy Share Image
“Modern man’s seemingly instinctive impulse to control women’s sexuality is not an intrinsic feature of human nature. It is a response to… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“Modern man has successfully razed the imaginative landscapes of primal peoples the whole world over. Kill the gods first, slaughter the sacred… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Reading Mr. Malcolm Muggeridge's brilliant and depressing book, "The Thirties", I thought of a rather cruel trick I once played on a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“To the extent that propaganda is based on current news, it cannot permit time for thought or reflection. A man caught up… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“I mean to keep the remaining shots for people in the shameful state you and I were in last night—I wish we… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Modern man is actually close to the picture Huxley describes in his Brave New World : well fed, well clad, satisfied sexually,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“You were saying that the kind of man Robert was is hard to find,” she said. Yes…it is.” I thought you were… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
“...the delicate arrangements and systems that made life on the outside so easy; the massive industries balanced on knife-edge adjustments; the handful… — William Mulvihill Copy Share Image
“Yet there is one experience which most sincere ex-Communists share, whether or not they go only part way to the end of… — Whittaker Chambers 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
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