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Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent…

— Phillip E. Johnson

“Post-Modernism (n.): That period that comes between Modernism (q.v.) and Post-Post-Modernism. Modernists think that Science makes it possible for us to know everything perfectly…

— Donald T. Williams

True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?

— Robert Hughes

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

— Louis Menand

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

— Kathy Acker

By Modernism, I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change; in novelty for its own…

— Dan Cruickshank

It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought. But for…

— C. S. Lewis

“Naturalism is the least subjective reality in this human world.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“naturalism, alone among all considered philosophical attempts to describe the shape of reality, is radically insufficient in its explanatory range.”

— David Bentley Hart

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of…

— Phillip E. Johnson

“The problem with modernism is that we actually believe, naively and arrogantly, that we can in some way hold any concept and grasp it…

— Tobin Wilson