This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
“Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Being concerned about other people is especially relevant in today's world. If we consider the complex inter-connected ness of our modern lives,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Words often bring with them the illusion of transparency, as though they allowed us to understand everything, control everything, put everything in… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
“How is it so easy to push a person you pulled towards you? Why a person with heartache is being considered as… — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, the modernity is something that comes from Western countries, and when the modernity comes to the… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
“The rise of modernity corresponded with the decline of an approach that regarded the created order as sacramental in character. The patristic… — Hans Boersma Copy Share Image
Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums.… — Nicolas Bourriaud Copy Share Image
“When we pick up the newspaper at breakfast, we expect - we even demand - that it brings us momentous events since… — Daniel Boorstin Copy Share Image
“and the very old men--some in their brushed Confederate uniforms--on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as if she… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“We are condemned to be modern. We can’t escape the facts of our history or of living in an age dominated by… — David Watson Copy Share Image
Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
“Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost,… — René Guénon Copy Share Image
“The logical tendency of modernity, in its dominant liberal form, is to look on love as at best a matter of piety… — David L. Schindler Copy Share Image
“Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps,… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“The concept of modernity in literary history was also related to the relation each Indian language and literature developed with English. Sanskrit… — Francesca Orsini Copy Share Image
What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
“...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I always thought that in the countries that the modernity kicks in later, it seems that everything changes on the surface, the… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates… — Jean Baudrillard 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
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
“I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The structures of neoliberal modernity do more than disinvest in young people and commodify them, they also transform the protected space of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly… — Francois-Henri Pinault Copy Share Image
We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
“Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
I don't like to go beyond modernity because you think girls might be like that in five years, but in five years… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
“What prompts so many commentators to speak of the 'end of history', of post-modernity, 'second modernity' and 'surmodernity', or otherwise to articulate… — Zygmunt Bauman 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
“You have the right to promote your own happiness just like everyone else, just like me. Your present dream has been shattered,… — Mao Dun Copy Share Image
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Our modern era embodies both the Tower of Babel and Pentecost simultaneously. Like Babel, globalization and technological advancement have created linguistic and… — Paule Patterson Copy Share Image
“The default digital world tone is one of hyperactive friendliness, artificial empathy, emoji-based validation, dopamine-rich feedback loops, toxic positivity, and veiled cruelty.… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
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