Best Modern Man Sayings

94 Modern Man quotes by 75 unique authors

Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of heathens, and… — Savitri Devi
Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. — Erich Fromm
Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store… — Erich Fromm
Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation… — Arthur Koestler
Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious… — Thomas Merton
Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment forget that he… — Alberto Moravia
The modern man, finding that Humanism and Sex both fail to satisfy, seeks his happiness in Science ... But Science fails too, for it is… — Fulton J. Sheen
I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates. — Billy Joel
Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of… — Russell Kirk
Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as… — Erich Fromm
Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing. — Ernest Becker
Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the… — Arthur Koestler
No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern… — Sigmund Freud
Modern man has lost the option of silence. — William S. Burroughs
Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the… — Tim Ferriss
Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm. — Allen Carr
The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is… — C.S. Lewis
The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man. — Stephen Covey
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him… — Vaclav Havel
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible… — Vaclav Havel
That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand… — Muhammad Iqbal
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes… — Lewis Thomas
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man. — Robert Winston
Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering… — Erich Fromm

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