Quotes About Modern

Especially if the girl he had earmarked was one of these tough modern thugs, all lipstick and cool, hard, sardonic eyes, as she probably was.

Himself strongly in favour of sharing the wealth, it seemed to him that the last thing to place in the hands of an impressionable child was a little wee passbook, starting it off in life—as it infallibly must—with capitalistic ideas out of tune with the trend of modern enlightened thought. Slip a baby ten quid, he reasoned, and before you knew where you were you had got another Economic Royalist on your hands.

the new world may be in fact a very, very, very, very old world.

The modern world, called Christian claims to have perpetuated the system called Christianity, while, at the same time, it declares, that the miraculous gifts of the Spirit have ceased. With as much propriety it might be contended, that the magnet "had been perpetuated, but had lost its magnetic properties; that water was perpetuated with all its virtues, but had lost its power to quench thirst, or seek its own level; that fire was still fire, but had lost its heat.

We also have to bear in mind that our own sense of what is plausible and implausible is severely limited by the fact that the modern world is dominated by an extremely narrow range of family arrangements. Looking in anthropology books on kinship and marriage is like opening a book on a huge variety of dead and dying languages, all victims of the inexorable homogenisation of the world that has been in progress since the dawn of civilisation.

Aqueles que mantêm a paz interior em meio ao tumulto da cidade moderna são imunes a doenças nervosas.

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.

THOSE WHO REALLY do know Christ in the modern world do so by seeking and entering the kingdom of God.

To know Christ in the modern world is to know him in your world now. To know him in your world now is to live interactively with him right where you are in your daily activities. This is the spiritual life in Christ.

men of the modern world exist in a continual and flagrant antagonism between their consciences and their way of life."1 There

The biblical stories know absolutely nothing of blind "leaps of faith," as that phrase is now understood. Such "leaps" are a pure fantasy imposed upon those stories and upon the religious life by the prejudices and tortured turns of modern thought.

Originally, Tarot had been devised as a secret means to pass along ideologies banned by the Church. Now, Tarot's mystical qualities were passed on by modern fortune-tellers.

Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage ... an assimilated historical record of man's quest to understand the divine.

What had once been life's quiet moments of solitary reflection—a few minutes alone on a bus, or walking to work, or waiting for an appointment—now felt unbearable, and people impulsively reached for their phones, their earbuds, and their games, unable to fight the addictive pull of technology. The miracles of the past were fading away, whitewashed by a ceaseless hunger for all-that-was-new.

Mal'akh was dragging Langdon across the living room when the congregation declared, "Amen!" Amon, Mal'akh corrected. Egypt is the cradle of your religion. The god Amon was the prototype for Zeus Ã¢â'¬Â¦ for Jupiter Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and for every modern face of God. To this day, every religion on earth shouted out a variation of his name. Amen! Amin! Aum!

There will come a day when modern science begins in earnest to study the wisdom of the ancients Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that will be the day that mankind begins to find answers to the big questions that still elude him.

Modern polarity is nothing but the 'dual world' described by Krishna here in the Bhagavad Gita over two thousand years ago.

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? WHY YOUR FIVE-YEAR-OLD COULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT HOW TO SURVIVE MODERN ART

As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her four-year cycle to organize their Olympiads. Nowadays, few people realized that the four-year schedule of modern Olympic Games still followed the cycles of Venus. Even fewer people knew that the five-pointed star had almost become the official Olympic seal but was modified at the last moment—its five points exchanged for five intersecting rings to better reflect the games' spirit of inclusion and harmony.

En el mundo del arte clásico, las obras se aprecian en base a la ejecución del artista; es decir, la destreza con la que pinta el lienzo o cincela la piedra. En el arte moderno, sin embargo, la valoración se basa más en la idea que en su ejecución

As are many equally improbable beliefs." Langdon often reminded his students that most modern religions included stories that did not hold up to scientific scrutiny: everything from Moses parting the Red Sea . . . to

In your world of classical art, pieces are revered for the artist's skill of execution—that is, how deftly he places the brush to canvas or the chisel to stone. In modern art, however, masterpieces are often more about the idea than the execution.

In your world of classical art pieces are revered for the artist's skill of execution - that is, how deftly he places the brush to canvas or the chisel to stone. In modern art, however, masterpieces are often more about the idea than the execution.

Bueno, esa es con frecuencia la cuestión, ¿no? En el mundo del arte clásico, las obras se aprecian en base a la ejecución del artista; es decir, la destreza con la que pinta el lienzo o cincela la piedra. En el arte moderno, sin embargo, la valoración se basa más en la idea que en su ejecución. Por ejemplo, cualquiera puede componer una sinfonía de cuarenta minutos que consista únicamente en un acorde y silencio, pero fue Klein quien tuvo la idea.