Modernity Quote by Anthony Daniels Download Open image “Modernity is the most transient of qualities.” — Anthony Daniels ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Modernity Quality Transient
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
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
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 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 point that… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a… — Gianni Vattimo Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious. — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it. — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never. — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence. — Anthony Daniels 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 off the… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the… — Arnold Beichman 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. The term… — Nicolas Bourriaud Copy Share Image
“You and I will never live to see the day that women recover their balance.” — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
“Further, in the modern story, reality is that which is observable, measurable, and repeatable - the kinds of phenomena available, accessible, and verifiable to… — Tim Keel Copy Share Image
For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun… — George W. S. Trow 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 cultural fragmentation…… — Paule Patterson Copy Share Image
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive. — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
“An attempt to wrest from God the prerogatives of absolute freedom and infinity leads to the inversion of Pentecost and what is in effect… — Colin E. Gunton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
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