“This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world. But not… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
If you say the world is totally dependent on oil in many parts of the world, coal and certainly natural gas, we… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
“That clean but lonely feeling when there are no other cars. The traffic lights changing just for you.” — Don DeLillo 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
Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“Nothing like a hot cup of black filtered coffee, none of that fancy espresso crap. Especially from those new pod machines. What… — Caspar Vega Copy Share Image
“I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity… — Sara Sheridan 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
By Modernism, I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change; in novelty for… — Dan Cruickshank Copy Share Image
“We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in… — Wallace Stegner 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
“Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
“This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer]… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.” — T S Eliot Copy Share Image
Simple yet succinct, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals exposes the idols of modernity and provides the biblical… — Daniel L. Akin Copy Share Image
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“-Vet du hva hun er? -Et Satans Fruentimmer! -Åh, Fremtidens Fruentimmer!” — Alexander L. Kielland Copy Share Image
[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the… — Walead Beshty Copy Share Image