Best Our Modern Quotes
95 Our Modern quotes by 91 unique authors
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City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me…
— Leon Trotsky
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Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering…
— Cecil B. DeMille
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There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they…
— C.S. Lewis
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Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization....The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other, the mutual hatred…
— H. Allen Smith
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It seems to me that we spend most of our spiritual energies trying to explain why the God of Elijah, Samson, David, and Paul seems…
— Eric Ludy
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It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what…
— Prince Charles
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The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated – with his body…
— Alexander Lowen
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Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions of our modern…
— Doris "Granny D" Haddock
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We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
— Os Guinness
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Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly accurate…
— Laurie Cabot
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Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
— Nirmalananda
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What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society, the inability to…
— Jon Foreman
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Being concerned about other people is especially relevant in today's world. If we consider the complex inter-connected ness of our modern lives, how we depend…
— Dalai Lama
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If I as a geologist were called upon to explain briefly our modern ideas of the origin of the earth and the development of life…
— Wallace Pratt
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The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life…
— Bo Lozoff
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The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve…
— Buzz Aldrin
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The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace…
— Chris Cooper
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The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe…
— Carl Sagan
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As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way…
— Sam Brownback
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Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one…
— Gustave Eiffel
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I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only…
— Richard P. Feynman
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For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in this…
— Roland Barthes
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In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.
— Thomas Yellowtail
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Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we…
— David Gemmell
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