It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else. — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil… — Richard Holbrooke 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
“Wrangling about precisely what constitutes genuine philosophy, proper philosophical practice, method, and aims is an important part of modern philosophy’s content and… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
“Modernity is not divorced from spiritualism, though it is from the charlatan. The ascetic (renunciate) owns nothing - not even his or… — Amarjyoti Acharya Copy Share Image
“Yet in fact modernity is a surprisingly simple deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Modern art has to be what is called intense. it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial… — Will Durant 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
“What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the strivings of the human… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the… — Alexander Kluge Copy Share Image
“It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the… — Jon Krakauer 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
“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
“It is as if the mission of modernity was to squeeze every drop of variability and randomness out of life— with the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“From the advertisement, his eyes moved up the skywalk, the zigzagging metal bridge that connected various locations in the neighborhood to the… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“The great political, artistic, and religious project of modernity has been to find a meaning to life that is not rooted in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“How could a large land empire thrive and dominate in the modern world without reliable access to world markets and without much… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The overwhelming noise we live with has made a fundamental pleasure like sex somehow less exciting, less satisfying, than it was for… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
“Modernity, in contrast, is based on the firm belief that economic growth is not only possible, but absolutely essential... Modernity has turned… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“They are all dead now, Diocletian and Ignatius, Cyril and Hypatia, Julian and Basil, Athanasius and Arîus: every party has yielded up… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
“Prior to modern times, the term 'Islamic' (Islami in Arabic) was almost never used to define the provenance, status, or substance of… — Sherman A. Jackson Copy Share Image
“I attended a symposium, an event named after a fifth century (B.C.) Athenian drinking party in which nonnerds talked about love; alas,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“But, Lord, if it is Thy will that I should love him, make me love him - as Christ would, who died… — D.H. Lawrence 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
“The acids of modernity brought about by modern philosophy were just as corrosive for traditional religion as were the ones created by… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
If you think modernity is mostly to blame for pollution, visit Africa where people still burn wood and dung as an energy… — Michael Shellenberger 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
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
Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I do think there is a lack of modernity at the moment - and I don't even like that word, modernity, anymore.… — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image
Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Modernity has created more problems than it is capable of solving. Millions of people are now condemned to wait endlessly for their… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“Let us not project our own spiritual limitations onto the modern world, for it is not the world which prevents us from… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
