Clip Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

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

— George Scialabba

“Words often bring with them the illusion of transparency, as though they allowed us to understand everything, control everything, put everything in order. Modernity…

— Robert Sarah

“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

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 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

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

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Sonia Rykiel

Whether we like it or not, the modernity is something that comes from Western countries, and when the modernity comes to the Eastern countries,…

— Asghar Farhadi

Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you…

— Sophie Kinsella