Modern Quotes

3241 Modern quotes by 2096 unique authors

Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is… — Sogyal Rinpoche
It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities… — P.J. O'Rourke
The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion… — Fritjof Capra
In this modern world plagued with counterfeits for the Lord's plan, we must not be misled into supposing that we can discharge our obligations to… — Marion G. Romney
A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries… — Fritjof Capra
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of… — Carl Sagan
I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things, like the particles… — Lewis Thomas
If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that… — Karl Pearson
Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the… — Mary McCarthy
The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to a deep revision… — Fritjof Capra
I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell. Show and Tell is a… — Robert Orben
You are born modern, you do not become so. — Jean Baudrillard
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery. — Upton Sinclair
The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize. — Bruce Barton
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune. — Oscar Wilde
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. — Wallace Stevens
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly. — Oscar Wilde
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. — Alexander Herzen
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe. — Harold Rosenberg
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 dead… — Elias Canetti
In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean… — Ravi Zacharias
As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs… — Richard J. Foster
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. — Cyril Connolly
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option… — Jacques Ellul

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