Modern man Quote by Paul Valéry Download Open image ““Modern man no longer works at what cannot be abbreviated”” — Paul Valéry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Modern man
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Modern man is assailed on every side and almost without interruption by noise - of the radio, of television, of headlines, of advertising and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find; The man who does… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“O Socrates, the universe cannot for one instant endure to be only what it is. It is strange to think that that which is… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“I am now going to make an admission. I confess, I agree, that all these good people who protested, who laughed, who did not… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Modern man’s misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
I am actually a perfectly capable modern man who can cook, clean, wash, and find my way to places, but nobody believes it. — James May Copy Share Image
“Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams again. Freud,… — Gary Valentine Copy Share Image
“Modern man has too many masks to wear. We must unmask and be ourselves, sincerely, earnestly and live truly as we are,” — Gyomay M. Kubose Copy Share Image
I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
