Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village… — Flora Thompson 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
Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Faulkner speaks to us on the questions of race, the challenges of modernity, and modern man's dilemma in all of its aspects.… — David Milch Copy Share Image
My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical… — Jean Nouvel 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
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
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. — Antonio Gramsci 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
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
“The great pagan sadness of modern man is largely due to his premonition of ultimate disaster.” — Francis Stuart Campbell Copy Share Image
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree — William Blake Copy Share Image
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, people no longer know Beethoven's Ninth from concerts, but form the for lines of the 'Ode to Joy' that they hear… — Milan Kundera 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
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The question of the relation between modernity and postmodernity revolves around the issue of 'legitimation.' Modernity, then, appeals to science to legitimate… — James K.A. Smith 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
“In al-Qaeda we see a terrorist grouping with, in many ways, a medieval ideology, employing today's technology to great advantage. It works… — Eliza Manningham-Buller Copy Share Image
“Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
I consider it as a foreshadowing of modernity in many different respects, and the consistency of character is interesting to the emerging… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual… — Roland Barthes 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
“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
“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
“We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and… — James Shapiro Copy Share Image
“In this pilgrimage in search of modernity I lost my way at many points only to find myself again. I returned to… — Octavio Paz 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
![“[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 desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).” quote by Walead Beshty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bcc/walead-beshty-45594_belief_x-ray-s-accidental-discovery-in-the-late_1448388.jpg)
