Our Contemporary Quotes

32 quotes by 29 authors

Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying the truth of… — Hans Rookmaaker
Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a man inspired and… — Margot Livesey
Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it. — Edward Abbey
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the… — Angela Carter
Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed societyâ€”to help solve our contemporary problemsâ€”seems to me a peculiarly American delusion. To write… — Jonathan Franzen
The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like… — John Maynard Keynes
Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort… — Jeffrey Deitch
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both… — A J P Taylor
Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a… — Alasdair MacIntyre
Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we… — Jacob Needleman
All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by… — Heinrich Heine
If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks… — Eckhart Tolle
Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot… — Guido von List
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. — Sam Shepard
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and… — George Crumb
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to… — George Crumb
I abandoned the extraterrestria l hypothesis in 1967 when my own field investigations disclosed an astonishing overlap between psychic phenomena and UFOs ... The objects… — John A. Keel
We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its… — Asger Jorn
The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the social… — Frederick Lenz
It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times.… — Umberto Eco

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