Quotes About Modern

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted and uninterrupted message of Revelation.

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

I can kind of fit the women's and the men's samples in a very similar way, just because of where my body is in my life, and I feel like it's modern to mix.

Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.

Modern man has lost the option of silence.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.

When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

Stress is the trash of modern life — we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.

Stretching oneself too thin is the disease of modern life — letting oneself get too thick, the other.

Flowers don't open to the clock but to the sunshine spontaneous; for modern humans that manner of instinct is now extraneous.

Cell phones are the latest invention in rudeness.

Our people have become as processed as our food.

Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition, magical stories were enjoyed by listeners young and old alike, while literary fairy tales (including most of the tales that are best known today) were published primarily for adult readers until the 19th century.

If Jesus were on earth today, he'd want to be interviewed by Playboy.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life. It seems to be the modern world: we all are depressed.