Modern Mind Quotes

15 quotes by 13 authors

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold.… — Albert Camus
Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is going to remain… — Rajneesh
Above all, we must awaken to and overcome the great hidden anthropocentric projection that has virtually defined the modern mind: the pervasive projection of soullessness… — Richard Tarnas
One thing I've always thought about Morgana is that she's sort of a modern mind in a period body. She's not your usual warm princess,… — Katie McGrath
The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends… — Erich Heller
The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply,… — Ronald Knox
To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it. — Bertrand Russell
A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind. — Peter Kreeft
The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater. — Peter Kreeft
The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of… — Susan Sontag
The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of… — Rajneesh
For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one… — Donna Tartt
The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which… — Edward Sapir

Who Wrote These Modern Mind Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 15 Modern Mind Quotes as follows: