Life Quote by Paul Valéry

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

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

To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world -…

— Marshall Berman

To be modern is to destroy nature.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values,…

— Steven Pinker

“Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not now [1977].”

— A.S. Byatt

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

— Charles Baudelaire

To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.

— Joseph Goebbels

The word 'modern' is a cliche.

— Patrick Cox

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