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
“A sentence in Auden's Airman's Journal has always seemed very profound to me ---I haven't the book here so I can't quote… — Elizabeth Bishop 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
No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
“Disgusted by the abuses to which it led, humanity repressed Christianity by which it had so long been dominated. Repressed, but not… — Paul Tournier 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
“The modern man needs to catch on to the fact that women want to be treated as equals, but only when it… — Jodi Ellen Malpas Copy Share Image
The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams… — Gary Valentine Copy Share Image
“At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction; he has a secret horror of… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Copy Share Image
“The problem which confronts us as we approach modern man today is not how we are to change Christian teaching in order… — Francis August Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“I look at our modern mania for educational credentials as a kind of idol—a thing so burnished and glittery that sometimes the… — Elizabeth Scalia Copy Share Image
Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
“Horse [Man you will find here a new representation of the universe at its most poetic and most modern Man man man… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“…modern man no longer communicates with the madman […] There is no common language: or rather, it no longer exists; the constitution… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Comrades in the struggle! The position of modern man is not merely lamentable; one might even say that there is no condition,… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
“Modern man is full of platitudes about living life to its fullest, with catchy keychain phrases and little plaques for kitchen walls.… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“One's-Self I Sing One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top… — Walt Whitman 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
“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