Modernity Quotes

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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. — Charles Baudelaire
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory… — Charles Baudelaire
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is… — Ulrich Beck
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. — Theodor Adorno
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. — Eric Hoffer
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could… — Paul de Man
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
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
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. — Bryan Appleyard
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow… — Jean Baudrillard
Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity. — Stephen Batchelor
One would love nonetheless to know how to be a man, how to be a woman before God, in the mirror of one's own conscience,… — Tariq Ramadan
My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work… — Jean Nouvel
As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying the fruits of… — Gary Bauer
You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: 'that world is gone.' — Peggy Noonan
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. — Edgar Friedenberg
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has… — Andre Bazin

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