Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who… — Zygmunt Bauman 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
The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most… — Hamid Dabashi Copy Share Image
The scientific and societal achievements of the modern age are undisputable. But after the French Revolution, modernity increasingly emancipated itself from Christian… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
“Today, the language of the market penetrates every pore and forces every interpersonal relation into the schema of individual preference.” — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term. — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
There is reason to be scared. Look at what has happened with fundamentalism - this is a reaction against modernity. It happens… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers,… — Oriana Fallaci 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
“You have captured the whole world, man, you are everywhere. Everywhere you introduce what you call modernity, the era of change, what… — Andrzej Sapkowski 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
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
You are not doomed to reproduce what your ancestors have done. The son will not be like his father, the daughter will… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The people of Iran have been battling against consecutive conflicts between tradition and modernity for over 100 years... some have tried and… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
“You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius X And you whom the… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans; we know very well how far off we live. 'Neither by land nor by sea… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Miss Millick wondered just what had happened to Mr. Wran. He kept making the strangest remarks when she took dictation. Just this… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“This is the only period in all human history when people were proud of being modern. For though to-day is always to-day… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“His concept of allochrony - initially introduced shyly as 'untimeliness', then later radicalized to an exit from modernity - is based on… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a new, stark, more nearly… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
“It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“Modernity is a busy place, spinning with silicon speed that goes ever faster but never forward, people pressed into cities full of… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“Don’t let the modern love change you too much that you forget what it is to live with kindness and compassion. From… — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
It is necessary to go back to our age old beliefs to save our ethos which are on the decline due to… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“and here is where unsentimental history and statistical literacy can change our view of modernity, for they show that nostalgia for a… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity'… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Christmas ought to be brought up to date,” Maria said. “It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Throughout early modernity there were very strong pressures on Jews to assimilate. Assimilating meant cutting your ties with the community of origin. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
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