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Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses, — Pope Paul VI
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
Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems. — Reinhold Niebuhr
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him. — William James
Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to… — Herbert Read
Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures… — Otto Neurath
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree… — Carl Jung
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.… — Carl Jung
Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major… — Edward R. Murrow
I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one. — Ian Hamilton Finlay
Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes… — Mark Twight
Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would… — Bertrand Russell
The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but a refugee-an escapist.… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular… — Ferdinand Mount
The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority… — El Lissitzky
Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man. — Robert S. de Ropp
The notion of dream interpretation far antedates the birth of psychoanalysis, and probably served an important function in most, if not all, historical societies. In… — Neel Burton
Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air — Francis Schaeffer
When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even… — Ernest Becker
We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and… — Richard Leakey
At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Modern man is a hard-working human... — Ed Wood
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

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