Characteristics Quote by Alasdair MacIntyre

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and…

— Lion Feuchtwanger

“I am not averse to generalizing the notion of "modern" to designate a certain way of life, rather than making it purely a synonym…

— Paul Valéry

Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

— Anthony Daniels

“Not only have past processes made us what we are-"modern" or "postmodern" selves, rather than "medieval" or "early modern" selves-but by explaining them we…

— Brad S. Gregory

“A traditionalist’s values are gleaned from all that is good in the past.”

— Fennel Hudson

“In this environment, the development of modern consciousness was experienced not as an evolution from a previous way of understanding the world, but rather…

— Christopher Clark

“This preoccupation with the classics was the happiest thing that could have befallen me. It gave me a standard of values. To live for…

— John Buchan

For the longest time, people would say to me that I didn't feel very modern, that I seemed from another time.

— Jessica Chastain

“What used to be moral is aesthetic for us. What was social is now individual.”

— Fernando Pessoa

I did a lot of work with early 20th century attitudes, the kind of superficial notions and behavior that prompt people who don't know…

— James Vance

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world -…

— Marshall Berman