The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“And then the two basic ideals of modern man- without them he is unthinkable- the idea of free personality and the idea… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“modern man is the victim of his own disillusionment; he has been disinherited by his own analytic strength.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers. — Nicholas Eberstadt Copy Share Image
“modern man tries to replace vital awe and wonder with a “How to do it” manual.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world. He is the Wise who knows not.… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from,… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas… — Brendan Rodgers Copy Share Image
“As Erich Fromm put it, “Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know… — Jean Paul Zogby Copy Share Image
Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
Modern man has lost any sense of God's nearness, but Christianity teaches that God reveals himself through every single thing he has… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
“As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“Modern man has a need for simplification that tends to find its expression one way or another. And this artificial monotony which… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
The character structure of modern man, who reproduces a six-thousand-year-old patriarchal authoritarian culture is typified by characterological armoring against his inner nature… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Not so with our characters. They have no metaphysics, no order, no law. They are miserable and they don’t know why. They… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
For Jews, the Messiah has never come; for Christians, He has come but once; for modern man, He appears and disappears with… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are… — C. S. Lewis 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
“The actor, like the modern man of reason, must have his place determined and his lines memorized before he goes on stage.… — John Ralston Saul 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
“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
“We are fond of talking about 'liberty'; but the way we end up actually talking of it is an attempt to avoid… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of… — Friedrich von Schiller Copy Share Image
“Devaluation of the Earth, hostility towards the Earth, fear of the Earth: these are all from the psychological point of view the… — Erich Neumann Copy Share Image
“The archetypal image of the redeemer serpent is certainly placed here in opposition to the serpents of evil that battle with it.… — Erich Neumann Copy Share Image
“By time-honored esthetic and moral standards the knowing modern man, and woman, is a barely polite gangster; his machine-gun is his mind,… — Seymour Krim Copy Share Image
“Modern man has too many masks to wear. We must unmask and be ourselves, sincerely, earnestly and live truly as we are,” — Gyomay M. Kubose Copy Share Image
Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes! — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him. — William James Copy Share Image
“Modern man became psychological because he became isolated from protective collective ideologies. He had to justify himself from within himself.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
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