Creature Quote by Michael Leunig

A modern man is a man who probably doesn't remember what man knows about man.

— Vikrant Parsai

Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into the popular…

— James May

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers…

— Vaclav Havel

Modern man is sick because he is not whole.

— Carl Jung

Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment forget that…

— Alberto Moravia

Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional. He is…

— Carlos Castaneda

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

— William James

“The "modern man" has "come of age" as a deadly serious adult, conscious of his sufferings and alienations but not of joy, of sex…

— Alexander Schmemann

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

— Erich Fromm

The character structure of modern man, who reproduces a six-thousand-year-old patriarchal authoritarian culture is typified by characterological armoring against his inner nature and against…

— Wilhelm Reich

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

— Carl Jung

Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.

— Robert L. Millet