Modern Quotes

3241 Modern quotes by 2096 unique authors

A modern school where football is taught. — Ambrose Bierce
Magic consists of creating, by misdirection of the senses, the mental impression of supernatural agency at work. That, and only that, is what modern magic… — Unknown Author
No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the… — Carl L. Becker
Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society. — Unknown Author
Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients. — Samuel Johnson
Equal interchange of goods and service between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrow's business world when the vision of the modern business man… — Walter Russell
The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice. — Henri Matisse
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is… — Alfred North Whitehead
What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside....… — Terence McKenna
Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He… — Benjamin Tucker
He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is… — Benjamin Tucker
It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found… — Unknown Author
Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to… — Hermann Hankel
So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long,… — Robert Bloch
I really didn't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were very modern and… — Marjane Satrapi
Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience. — Henry Waxman
The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like… — John Maynard Keynes
I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what' — Norbert Wiener
The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and a student of gravitational relativity on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On Sunday,… — Norbert Wiener
I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so 'actual' in a… — Cecilia Bartoli
The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is… — Guy Debord
Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify experience and also… — Richard Sennett
Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small… — J I Packer
Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal. — J I Packer
To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about God's kindness but… — J I Packer

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