The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Wrangling about precisely what constitutes genuine philosophy, proper philosophical practice, method, and aims is an important part of modern philosophy’s content and… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
“[...] One chief difference between the medieval "scientist" and the scientist of to-day[1948] lies in the nature of the first principles accepted… — Leon Roth Copy Share Image
“Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written.… — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most… — Hamid Dabashi Copy Share Image
Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism… — Graham Harvey Copy Share Image
ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Throughout early modernity there were very strong pressures on Jews to assimilate. Assimilating meant cutting your ties with the community of origin. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“The people's need to share has turned into a massive disease. It has taken them to the most private meaningless part of… — Kambiz Shabankare Copy Share Image
“In a feast of fame and talks, Scandal flashing, raising tongue and brows. In a blast of bombing and power play, Fear… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
“The great political, artistic, and religious project of modernity has been to find a meaning to life that is not rooted in… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was… — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
“The resource of generational history is accorded little attention our society, which seems ever more obsessed with making “new” and “better” synonymous.… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“Modernity, though, is often surprisingly difficult to "locate." Certainly modernity cannot be defined as the surpassing of earlier forms of brutality. Perhaps… — Alexander Edmonds Copy Share Image
The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer.… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
