Quotes About Modern

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one's wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans.

Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

in these shitty plastic days ...

I thought the invention of mobile phone was to save our time & money, be we are doing exactly the opposite.

Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

I think we're seeing that the way we've done parenting cannot be sustainable in this generation, for sure.

Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death.

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.

Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated

There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.

Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.