Modernity Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

— Larry Wall

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

— Wallace Stevens

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables,…

— Orhan Pamuk

To be modern is to be aware of what is going on.

— Sonia Rykiel

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

— Theodore Bikel

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

— Theodor Adorno

“I am not averse to generalizing the notion of "modern" to designate a certain way of life, rather than making it purely a synonym…

— Paul Valéry

To be modern is to destroy nature.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the…

— George Scialabba

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 exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that…

— Paul de Man