Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what' — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man. — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
“The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself.” — Rod Judkins 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
Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The larger the price tag, the more you have to adopt what I call the postmodern management approach. What I mean by… — John Kao 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
[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's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the… — George Will Copy Share Image
“And therefore the idea of serving mankind, of the brotherhood and oneness of people, is fading more and more in the world,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov 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 old-fashioned idea of a good manager is one who is supposed to know all the answers, can solve every problem himself,… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
Even if matter could do every outward thing that God does, the idea of it would not work as satisfactorily, because the… — William James 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, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
“It is very currently suggested that the modern man is the heir of all the ages, that he has got the good… — G.K. Chesterton 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
“Liberalism has been degraded into liberality. Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb. The Jacobin could… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There is evidence that the honoree [Leonard Cohen] might be privy to the secret of the universe, which, in case you're wondering,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Modern man is exposed to an almost unceasing “noise,” the noise of the radio, television, headlines, advertising, the movies, most of which… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Positivist man is a curious creature who dwells in the tiny island of light composed of what he finds scientifically "meaningful," while… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“But the new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The great prophetic work of the modern world is Goethe’s Faust , so little appreciated among the Anglo-Saxons. Mephistopheles offers Faust unlimited… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“The crux of the worldview conflict... is the denial of God's right to be God, and the usurpation of that right by… — Kevin Swanson Copy Share Image
“One of the most distinguished psychiatrists living, Dr. Carl Jung, says in his book Modern Man in Search of a Soul (*):… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right. — Milton S. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Modern man, instead of attempting to raise himself to truth, seeks to drag truth down to his own level.” — René Guénon Copy Share Image
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man. — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards. — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
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