Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“The problem with modernism is that we actually believe, naively and arrogantly, that we can in some way hold any concept and grasp it…

— Tobin Wilson

“Whenever two unbelievers quarrel, the may both say some very insightful things about the unsightly habits of the other. The postmodernists are very good…

— Douglas Wilson

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

— Anonymous

“It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have…

— George Eliot

“Everyone knows which way modernism is going, you create a form by breaking up a form, in an endless regression, just let it continue,…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“The real objection to modernism is simply that it is a form of snobbishness.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“(...) Taking the journalist's vow of impartiality and objectivity was not unlike joining an order of monks and spending the rest of your life…

— Paul Auster

“The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are anti-liberal and anti-bourgeois; they are writers who are repetitive, obsessive, and impolite, who impress by force…

— Susan Sontag

“Thursday is perhaps the worst day of the week. It's nothing in itself; it just reminds you that the week has been going on…

— Nicci French

“Time are vulgar, I told myself in the prudish and bombastic tone of those who believe themselves to be exempt from the criticisms they…

— Anonymous

“Define your week by obedience, not by a number on the scale.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky