Quotes About Modernity

Cada invento de la modernidad nos llega como sacralizado por la idea de que toda novedad supone un avance. Nadie duda que los autos de hoy son mejores que los autos de ayer: pocos piensan que la profileración de los autos está cambiando por un plato de orgullo y comodidad el oxígeno el planeta y el derecho a la capa de ozono

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

After he wrote The Paradox of Choice, Schwartz got fervent amens from European governments as well as individual readers for insisting that the management of your focus has become one of decision-laden modernity's major challenges. Many behavioral economists and social psychologists also share his concern about what he calls "the consequences of mis-attention.

Yours is the face of a post-modern woman.

America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth. Having known no primitive accumulation of time, it lives in a perpetual present.

Viteza se strecur? pretutindeni, în c?l?torii, în obiceiuri, în mersul istoriei, care dup? cum repeta fiecare, se accelera, în ?tiin??, în mod?, ?i pân? ?i în literatur?.

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

Modernity promised that all human beings would be treated equally. Women took that promise seriously and rebelled against the old order. Women, now liberated and with equal careers, nevertheless find they still desire to have children, but have no basis for claiming that men should assume a responsibility for them. So nature weighs more heavily on women. In the old order they were subordinated and dependent on men; in the new order they are isolated, needing men, but not able to count on them.

The side of modernity that is less interesting to Americans, which seeks less for political solutions than for understanding and satisfaction of man in his fullness or completeness, finds its profoundest statement in Nietzsche.

The first discipline modernitys originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.

Food is so yesterday." Unfortunately, that was the last time I'd had some.

What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them. I like them to be simple... to move well, to move with the times and a little ahead of the times.

The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.

When it becomes economically possible, building will become montage.

When I post pictures, I get such good response; they don't want to see me just in Indian clothes.

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.

On racial issues, though, he made no effort to adjust to modernity.143 When asked if he had seen the film Carmen Jones, a musical with a black cast, he replied that he had walked out early on as he didn't like 'blackamoors'.

We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.

One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity.

Today, though, each faith community suffers from a decline of one or the other aspect of religious vitality. Modernity has not been kind to Jewish spirituality: Large parts of the Jewish people have become severed from basic faith and devotion. The Muslim world has the opposite problem: an erosion of open inquiry and self-critique.

Comprendo que en América Latina la psicoterapia se haya convertido en algo similar a eso, porque se trata de una moda estúpida que no intenta más que uniformar a la humanidad, rica y variada; una moda que instruye a los seres mediocres deseosos de llevar una a una a las ovejas descarriadas al redil del conformismo.

Comprendo que en América la psicoterapia se haya convertido en algo similar a eso, porque se trata de una moda estúpida que no intenta más que uniformar a la humanidad, rica y variada; una moda que instruye a los seres mediocres deseosos de llevar una a una a las ovejas descarriadas al redil del conformismo.