Quotes About Modern

Anyone deserves the West who arrives with fresh energy to break up the deadly, antiseptic boredom of its civilization, prepared to undergo the quarantine that we prescribe for immigrants. We do not realize that our whole life has become a quarantine, and that all our countries have become barracks and concentration camps, admittedly with all the modern conveniences.

Information is power, and modern information technology is spreading information more widely than ever before in history.

The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware of all the principles underlying what they were doing. The real nature of the tools of their craft has become evident only within recent times A renaissance of logical studies in modern times begins with the publication in 1847 of George Boole's 'The Mathematical Analysis of Logic'.

Those who like to interpret historical facts symbolically may recognize in this the spirit of a specifically "modern" conception of the world which permits the subject to assert itself against the object as something independent and equal; whereas classical antiquity did not as yet permit the explicit formulation of this contrast; and whereas the Middle Ages believed the subject as well as the object to be submerged in a higher unity.

Now data is cheap and we are all kings and queens of our little online fiefdoms. A baby born to gadget-loving parents today can generate more data in her first month than it took for Homer to narrate the complete adventures of Odysseus.

Dis tog presies waarteen Biko en Fanon en wie ook al protesteer. Jy moet eers 'n klein Engelsmannetjie word voordat jy burger van die moderne wêreld mag wees? "Wat

That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.

Sadly, many contemporary Christians believe that the NT is enough, that it has, in fact, superseded the OT and rendered it obsolete.

Ms. Wrack's mother, Mrs. Wrack, had been a mermaid: a proper one who lived on a rock and combed her hair and sang. But sailors had never been lured to their doom by her, partly because she looked like the back of a bus and partly because modern ships are so high out of the water that they never even saw her

Never really either private or public, the modern self establishes its value through processes that are at once psychological and sociological, private and public, emotional and ritualistic. Clearly, then, in modern erotic/romantic relationships what is at stake are the self, its emotions, interiority, and, mostly, the way these are recognized (or fail to be recognized) by others.

What's great about Netflix is that everything is kind of instantaneous, and it goes around the world instantly. Everything is released at once. The format can be a little bit whatever you want.

Our education system must promote nationalism but should be modern and relevant to contemporary needs.

It's such a smart decision for comedy to not try to be relevant or contemporary.

Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant.

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.

Workday is constantly looking into the future and, you know, building applications that stay modern and relevant.

I loved the idea of evolving traditional methods and design to make products that last but are also relevant for the modern age.

I make ancient wisdom relevant, but through modern research and science.

When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful chapter of our past. But sadly it is very much part of our world today.

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.