Quotes About Modern

Evolution left us with another burden: our cognitive, emotional, and moral faculties are adapted to individual survival and reproduction in an archaic environment, not to universal thriving in a modern one.

Religious people today, compartmentalize their attitude to the Bible. They pay it lip service as a symbol of morality while getting their actual morality from more modern principles.

la falta de atención a los descubrimientos que han transformado la vida para mejor justifica una crítica de nuestra apreciación de la condición humana moderna.

To appreciate this burden, one doesn't have to believe that we are cavemen out of time, only that evolution, with its speed limit measured in generations, could not possibly have adapted our brains to modern technology and institutions

States are far less violent than traditional bands and tribes. Modern Western countries, even in their most war-torn centuries, suffered no more than around a quarter of the average death rate of nonstate societies, and less than a tenth of that for the most violent one.

PHILOSOPHY TODAY GETS no respect.

it's time to retire the morality play in which modern humans are a vile race of despoilers and plunderers who will hasten the apocalypse unless they undo the Industrial Revolution, renounce technology, and return to an ascetic harmony with nature.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.

I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.

I believe in gender equality and I love that I can represent strong modern-day women.

I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.

I love fashion. I like looking fresh and wearing new stuff.

The Christian church described by the Grand Inquisitor is the same church pilloried by Nietzsche. Childish, sanctimonious, patriarchal, servant of the state, that church is everything rotten still objected to by modern critics of Christianity.

And given that we are moral animals, what must be the effect of our simplistic modern relativism upon us? It means we are hobbling ourselves by pretending to be something we are not.

Chicks dig a dude who's sporting the latest eggplant turtleneck styles.

La decadencia es ese tobogán que gobiernan los jóvenes: a partir de ahora las cosas son así, abuelo. Y la vejez consiste precisamente en no poder elegir y en tener que asimilarte por la fuerza a esa manga de ignorantes modernos que te ponen un revólver de futuro en la nuca. Se acabó lo que se daba. Te gusta o te vas, te adaptás o morís.

A fé na cultura moderna era triste: era saber que amanhã seria essencialmente igual a hoje; que o progresso consistia somente em avançar, por todos os "sempres", sobre um caminho idêntico ao que já estava sob nossos pés. Um caminho assim está mais para uma prisão que, elástica, se alonga sem nos libertar.

There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.

Telephones, automobiles, and economic pressure all combine to create physical letdown and mental stress so great that today practically no home is entirely free from sufferers of some form of nervous tension.

The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for.