Absence Quote by Bryan Appleyard Download Open image “Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.” — Bryan Appleyard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absence May Modernism Modernity World
Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own. — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Modernism does not mean simply change and newness; it is a particular way of looking at the world, a particular philosophy based on the… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Modernism was born in part out of the need to find fresh ways of expression, to describe a new world that was unlike anything… — Margaret MacMillan 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 its own… — Dan Cruickshank Copy Share Image
“The problem with modernism is that we actually believe, naively and arrogantly, that we can in some way hold any concept and grasp it… — Tobin Wilson Copy Share Image
“We, that is, the traditionalists like myself, use the term ‘‘modernism’’ not in a vague way as characterizing just things that happen to be… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Modernism is an outmoded way of thinking about design: it just doesn't reflect the way we live now. It always puts forward this idea… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere. — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round an absence,… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Scientists themselves are of surprisingly little help. They find it difficult to talk of what they do because they tend to assume detailed knowledge… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
It is...idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as Judaism contradicts… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
Of course, the other thing about evolution is that anything can be said because very little can be disproved. Experimental evidence is minimal. — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet is one… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant gaze of machine 'love'. Coca Cola… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained. — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
If a large number of people who are convinced alien abductions are real are hypnotising even larger numbers of others who suspect they might… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
The cyborg is now the ideal to which all our most advanced technology is tending. — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves. — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the… — Phil Dusenberry Copy Share Image
Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he… — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent with them… — Jane Lotter Copy Share Image
Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
