Modern Quotes

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Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. — Julian Huxley
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront… — Ajahn Brahm
Appreciation is the breath of life to the creative artist, and in spite of modern conditions, there is enough abroad to sustain him. But his… — Walter J. Phillips
Atheists themselves used to be very comfortable in maintaining that the universe is eternal and uncaused. The problem is that they can no longer hold… — William Lane Craig
The observant man recognizes many mysteries into which he can not pretend to see, and he remembers that the world is too wide for the… — Charles Spurgeon
The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about… — Robert Browning
Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such, that unless our… — Unknown Author
Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was… — Oscar Wilde
Perversity is the muse of modern literature. — Susan Sontag
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing… — Lionel Trilling
Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. — Rama Swami
It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized… — John Henrik Clarke
... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something… — Unknown Author
The success of the '86 movie with Brandon Lee demanded some kind of continuation. Plus, I had always contemplated a modern version. — David Carradine
what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil… — Thomas Jefferson
The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone… — Mahatma Gandhi
There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain. — Oscar Wilde
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go. — Vera Brittain
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. — Nancy Banks-Smith
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically. — Christian Morgenstern
The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room. — Ben Katchor
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have… — Lewis Mumford

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