When I first decided to be a writer, that meant dealing with preoccupations and concerns that took little account of Indian traditions.… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“Modern politics is like watching a film with only bad guys. It soon starts to get really boring, because one of the… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The people of Iran have been battling against consecutive conflicts between tradition and modernity for over 100 years... some have tried and… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
“In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a… — Joshua Krook Copy Share Image
There's a lot of particularly good things going on in my life at the moment. It's the fact that I get to… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
“What constitutes the pleasure of the traveler is the obstacle, the fatigue, the peril itself. What pleasure can there be in an… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of… — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
“The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.” — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
One would love nonetheless to know how to be a man, how to be a woman before God, in the mirror of… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
“The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many… — David F. Ford Copy Share Image
The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the… — David Novak Copy Share Image
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. — Antonio Gramsci 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
Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite… — Guido von List Copy Share Image
Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values… — Nicolas Bourriaud Copy Share Image
“Although we, as Christians, are living in Sodom, we are not to become citizens of Sodom. . The story of Sodom is… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“For better of for worse the church in the West bought modernity's claims. We were baptized in its story (even though it… — Tim Keel Copy Share Image
“The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
“I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
