Quotes About Modern

Because of technology everything we make is always in the process of becoming. Every kind of thing is becoming something else, while it churns from "might" to "is." All is flux. Nothing is finished. Nothing is done. This never-ending change is the pivotal axis of the modern world.

For better or worse, our lives are accelerating, and the only speed fast enough is instant.

Anyway, the question of whether or not the modern far right's stance is 'fascist' has no bearing on the moral acceptability of its proposals. For instance, would the expulsion of non?whites from a country be more acceptable if it was the work of a non?fascist government?

The leaven of apostasy has spread to every developed nation. This makes modern culture more difficult to interpret in that there are both apostatizing trajectories and Christian roots intertwined within Western culture.

Myth and mysticism have been replaced in the world by social media."

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

I want to point out that the main reason our modern society cannot give us true and lasting self-esteem is that it cannot provide us with a meaningful understanding of what the self is.

Here they were, on the only planetary surface on which you could walk freely, naked to the wind and the sun, and when they had a choice, they sat in boxes and stared at littler boxes, just as if they had no choice-as if they were in a space station-

You sure you won't get lost?" I pulled my phone out of my pocket. "GPS," I said. "No one ever gets lost anymore.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

The models of modern physics are concerned, therefore, both with con- tinuous and discrete values. It would seem appropriate to consider a hybrid system. It will be extremely difficult to find a technical model of a hybrid computer which behaves according to the laws of quantum physics.

At her funeral, Diana's brother observed, 'Of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this--- a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of our modern age.

More to the point: the growing universe of the Nones—the new nonreligious—is one of the most spiritually vibrant and provocative spaces in modern life. It is not a world in which spiritual life is absent. It is a world that resists religious excesses and shallows.

He didn't look away. No one looked at a person that way anymore. They checked their phones, or scanned the horizon, or glanced around.

the lack of meaning in life is a soul-sickness whose full extent and import our age has not yet begun to comprehend.

A movement that cannot or will not draw boundaries, or that allows the modern cultural fear of exclusion to set its theological agenda, is doomed to lose its doctrinal identity. Once it does, it will drift from whatever moorings it may have had in historic Christianity.

The modern self assumes the authority of inner feelings and sees authenticity as defined by the ability to give social expression to the same.

Indifference, the plague of modern Western culture in general and evangelicalism in particular, is at best the result of intellectual laziness, at worst a sign of moral abdication.

obsession with method is one of the baleful aspects of modern literary theory, and it has not served society well in promoting the reading or writing of literature. Nevertheless,

Christian theology, in other words, always has a certain ineradicable complexity, which has serious implications for the modern evangelical predilection for simple and very brief statements of faith.

The modern partisan expects neither law nor mercy from the enemy.

The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, or Principia, the book that founded modern science.

Entre los modernos, Rousseau habló de una religión civil "cuyos artículos corresponde fijar al soberano, no precisamente como dogmas de religión sino como sentimientos de sociabilidad, sin los cuales es imposible ser buen ciudadano ni súbdito fiel".

novelty is the single most effective way to capture a person's attention.