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
“Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of… — Anthony Giddens 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
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
When I first decided to be a writer, that meant dealing with preoccupations and concerns that took little account of Indian traditions.… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“In other words, in 1919 relatively few people could become disenchanted with liberal modernity because only a tiny minority had enjoyed the… — Pankaj Mishra 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
The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
One would love nonetheless to know how to be a man, how to be a woman before God, in the mirror of… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Western Civilization was responsible for a paradigm shift in history. It created the industrial and scientific revolutions that enabled the birth of… — Benjamin Fulford Copy Share Image
“I remember reading once how some Stone Age Indians from the Brazilian rain forest with no knowledge or expectation of a world… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The resource of generational history is accorded little attention our society, which seems ever more obsessed with making “new” and “better” synonymous.… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“Advances in communication technology foster a false fantasy of togetherness by transmitting the impression of contact- phone calls, faxes, e-mail- without its… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values… — Nicolas Bourriaud Copy Share Image
In "solid modernity" difference was tolerated as a temporary irritant only, expected to disappear tomorrow, when "those aliens" will become like us.… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“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
My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
“In an abundant world, productivity is about eliminating bad habits; then adding good ones. In an abundant world, knowledge is about filtering,… — Vizi Andrei Copy Share Image
The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“The default digital world tone is one of hyperactive friendliness, artificial empathy, emoji-based validation, dopamine-rich feedback loops, toxic positivity, and veiled cruelty.… — Sov8840 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
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
I don't like to go beyond modernity because you think girls might be like that in five years, but in five years… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
[W]e are not morally bad people for taking carbon and turning it into the energy that offers life to humanity in a… — John Christy Copy Share Image
The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but… — David F. Wells 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
“Modern politics is like watching a film with only bad guys. It soon starts to get really boring, because one of the… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly… — Francois-Henri Pinault 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
“Our modern era embodies both the Tower of Babel and Pentecost simultaneously. Like Babel, globalization and technological advancement have created linguistic and… — Paule Patterson Copy Share Image
I always try to connect with what's happening in the world-reality, modernity, the 21st century, all that - and with Jil it… — Raf Simons 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
“You have the right to promote your own happiness just like everyone else, just like me. Your present dream has been shattered,… — Mao Dun Copy Share Image
“What prompts so many commentators to speak of the 'end of history', of post-modernity, 'second modernity' and 'surmodernity', or otherwise to articulate… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“How many like her were out there? People to whom the twenty-first century was a foreign landscape. No bright tomorrows for this… — Alan James Roll 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/i/bcc/walead-beshty-45594_belief_x-ray-s-accidental-discovery-in-the-late_1448388.jpg)
![“[W]e are not morally bad people for taking carbon and turning it into the energy that offers life to humanity in a world that would otherwise be brutal (think of life before modernity). On the contrary, we are good people for doing so.” quote by John Christy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f99/john-christy-48446_bad-people_w-e-are-not-morally-bad-people-for-takin_2989755.png)
