Quotes About Modernity

Despite its concessions to modernity, the land still retained the grandeur of the past and a lot of its magic.

Di certo esistono almeno due cose al di sopra di ogni frontiera. Una è il crimine che, travesito da modernità, distribuisce la miseria su scala mondiale; l'altra è la speranza che la vergogna esista solo quando sbagliamo un passo di danza e non ogni volta che ci guardiamo allo specchio. Per porre fine al primo e far fiorire la seconda bisogna solo lottare ed essere migliore. Il resto viene da sé e in genere è quello che va a riempire le biblioteche e i musei.

By the time you do what somebody else is doing, everybody has moved on to something else.

There is a specific dimension of the uncanny that emerges with modernity… in premodern societies the dimension of the uncanny was largely covered (and veiled) by the area of the sacred and untouchable… With the triumph of the Enlightenment, this privileged and excluded (the exclusion that founded society) was no more. That is to say that the uncanny became unplaceable; it became uncanny in the strict sense.

I try hard to look hip but ladylike; current, but not like I'm trying to be 16.

Tot ce-i la mod? mi-a repugnat întodeauna.Probabil c? suf?r de ceea ce am numit egoism artistic,în privinÅ£a artei vreau totul numai pt mine,vreau s?-l am singur pe Schopenhauer al meu,pe Pascal al meu,pe Novalis al meu ÅŸi pe mult iubitul meu Gogol,vreau s? posed numai eu singur aceste produse de art?,aceste agresiuni artistice geniale,vreau s?-i am eu singur pe Michelangelo,Renoir,Goya.

There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian intellect has no reason to be intimidated in the presence of later-stage modernity. Christianity has seen too many 'modern eras' to be cowed by this one.

Modernity has only lasted less than a dozen generations, while orthodox Christianity has already flourished for more than four hundred generations and shows no sign of fatigue. Yet orthodoxy seems like a newcomer in the university and to the cultural elites, since that is where it has been most forgotten.

The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.

People already feel that a man who lives without disturbing a curve of feature, or setting a mark of mental concern anywhere upon himself, is too far removed from modern perceptiveness to be a modern type. Physically beautiful men - the glory of the race when it was young - are almost an anachronism now; and we may wonder whether, at some time or other, physically beautiful women may not be anachronism likewise.

As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.

Where Voegelin seeks to show the Gnostic nature of modernity, Jonas seeks to show the modern nature of Gnosticism. Jonas draws parallels between ancient Gnosticism and modern, secular existentialism to prove that Gnosticism is existentialist, not that existentialism is Gnostic. For Jonas, both philosophies stress above all the radical alienation of human beings from the world.

nuestra actitud moderna habla con orgullo de las tinieblas de la superstición y de la credulidad medieval o primitiva, olvidando por completo que con nosotros llevamos todo el pasado, escondido en los sótanos del rascacielos que es nuestra conciencia racional.

If, as Max Weber contended, science, modernity and rationalism have disenchanted the world and swept it clean of gods, spirits and magic (or, at least, problematised believing in them), then psychedelics offer a potential way out of the ensuing existential impasse. -Andy Letcher

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.

De geschiedenis van de holocaust zit onder de vingerafdrukken van de moderniteit, van de maakbare maatschappij

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day, but no change at all ivry fifty years.

Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.

The history of the twentieth century - America's century! - has been pretty much a history of rising prices.