Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
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“Modern anxiety is expressed in the longing for what most people fear, even as modern grief is expressed in the unconsummated mourning… — Joseph Roach Copy Share Image
I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
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The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
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And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and… — Berenice Marlohe Copy Share Image
“Darwin and Nietzsche were the common spiritual and intellectual source for the mean-spirited and bellicose ideological assault on progress, liberalism, and democracy… — Arno J. Mayer Copy Share Image
“Miss Millick wondered just what had happened to Mr. Wran. He kept making the strangest remarks when she took dictation. Just this… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
It's easy, almost comforting, to dismiss Trumpism as the cry of laid-off men in rust-belt states shaking their wrinkled fists at the… — Fraser Nelson Copy Share Image
Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence -… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
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If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists… — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
It is so true that in liquid modernity freedom was, so to speak, let off the leash, and for a quite a… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“Western Civilization was responsible for a paradigm shift in history. It created the industrial and scientific revolutions that enabled the birth of… — Benjamin Fulford Copy Share Image
High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
It is not unfortunate that today, obscenity is being encourages in the name of modernity; unfortunate is that the young generation is… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“In February 1912, ancient China came to an end when the last of three millennia of Chinese emperors abdicated. Imagine twentieth-century Italy… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“This is the only period in all human history when people were proud of being modern. For though to-day is always to-day… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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