Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from. — Sylvain Tesson Copy Share Image
“The possibility of a musical modernity that was not characterized by sensationalism” — Alain Frogley Copy Share Image
Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed 'Casino Royale' because suddenly something changed with this modernity and with Daniel bringing life to James Bond in a… — Berenice Marlohe Copy Share Image
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Modern civilization has made woman a little wiser, but it has increased her suffering because of man's covetousness. The woman of yesterday… — Kahlil Gibran 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
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
“sometime around the turn of the seventeenth century there began what is often called the modern period, or modernity.[1] It lasted, roughly,… — Heath White 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
“I’m surrounded by modernity, yet the ways of business remain unchanged since the age of barter and battery.” — David Mack Copy Share Image
The essential of a real picture is that the things which occur in it occur to him in his peculiarly personal fashion..… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
“Originality' is the sickness of modernity that wishes to see itself as something new, always new, in order continually to witness its… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British royal family. They are also very… — Mario Testino 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
I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced… — Andrew Sullivan 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 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 novel is... the anti-form proper to modernity itself (which is to say, of capitalism and its cultural and epistemological categories, its… — Fredric Jameson 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
“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
“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
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
“Ebenezer Howard’s vision of the Garden City would seem almost feudal to us. He seems to have thought that members of the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“In the white man's world, language, too -- and the way which the white man thinks of it--has undergone a process of… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“The modern world has forgotten the necessity of encouraging men to be better. They speak of sick men or healthy men, of… — Francis Beauchesne Thornton Copy Share Image
“I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“You and I will never live to see the day that women recover their balance.” — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a… — Antonio Gramsci 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