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• Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and… — Charles Baudelaire
• Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal… — Charles Baudelaire
• All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we… — 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… — Paul de Man
• It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and… — Alexander Herzen
• A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The… — 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… — Jean Baudrillard
• Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really… — Stephen Batchelor

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