Quotes About Modernity

modernity's big lie: that humans are nothing more than ghosts in a machine, and we are free to adjust its settings in any way we like.

Este es el momento en el que Occidente pasó del estadio que el sociólogo Zygmunt Bauman llamó «modernidad sólida» —un periodo en el que el cambio social aún era relativamente predecible y manejable— al de «modernidad líquida», nuestra condición actual, en la que los cambios son tan rápidos que las instituciones sociales no tienen tiempo para cuajar y consolidarse19.

Here is the end point of modernity: the autonomous, freely choosing individual, finding meaning in no one but himself.

No doubt Western modernity has its limitations and discontents. Still, it is far better than the known alternatives—not only, or even primarily, because of its advanced technology but because of its fundamental commitment to freedom, reason, and human dignity.

La melancolía en Nietzsche no solamente es el demonio malvado al que le pide que no se enfade porque lo reta y lo enfrenta a su voluntas, sino también la náusea ante el temor de que los grandes avances de la modernidad, con su ciencia y su tecnología, puedan socavar los fundamentos de la cultura. Para Nietzsche los humanos están sumergidos en ese dolor superior y extraño que puede darle sentido a la vida.

El futuro del país es brumoso y la oscuridad se expande en los campos de la cultura y la ciencia. La desmodernidad se cuela por todos los poros del Estado.

In our case, as for countless other Jews, the price of integration was the loss of millennia of Jewish tradition. The Torah's instruction gave way to the moral void of modernity, a hectic dance over absence. Many

The acids of modernity brought about by modern philosophy were just as corrosive for traditional religion as were the ones created by the new sciences.

The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing. [Es ist die große Täuschung der Moderne, dass die Naturgesetze uns die Welt erklären. Die Naturgesetze beschreiben die Welt, sie beschreiben die Gesetzmäßigkeiten. Aber sie erklären uns nichts.]

Tempora mutantur.

To want to be ahead, and to celebrate and mythify this endeavor, is indeed one of the most powerful impulses of modernity itself.

The things that soonest appear out of date are those that at first strike us as most modern.

Judaism is as intrinsically divisive, as ridiculous in its literalism, and as at odds with the civilizing insights of modernity as any other religion.

I really enjoyed Casino Royale because suddenly something changed with this modernity and with Daniel bringing life to James Bond in a very new way.

Modernity of form is the style of old fogies yet to be.

The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

The future is now.

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

we know the way; we got our knowledge of it from thousands of years in the labyrinth. Who else has found it?—The man of today?—"I don't know either the way out or the way in; I am whatever doesn't know either the way out or the way in"—so sighs the man of today… . This is the sort of modernity that made us ill,—we sickened on lazy peace

This modernity makes us ill: whinging peace and cowardly compromise, the whole virtuous filth of the modern mentality. This tolerance and largeur of the heart that "forgives" everything because it "understands" everything is a desert wind for us. Better to live amid the ice than among modern virtues and other such southern winds!

The slavery of barbarians (i.e. our own slavery). The division of labour is the principle of barbarism. Dominance of mechanism. In an organism, the parts cannot be separated. The individualism of modernity and its opposite in antiquity. The wholly isolated individual of today is too weak and joins groups of slaves?of e.g. an academic discipline, a concept, a vice.

By and large, pity runs counter to the law of development, which is the law of selection. Pity preserves things that are ripe for decline, it defends things that have been disowned and condemned by life. […] In the middle of our unhealthy modernity, nothing is less healthy than Christian pity.