Quotes About Modern

Child! Turn your face to the light, to the science, to the reason, to the truth, to the peace! Child! Be modern, be compassionate, be individual, and be independent! Child! Don't be the man of anyone or any system, don't believe in any religious stories, and don't ever be silent against any oppressor! Child, turn your face to the light and walk towards the light!

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

a thousand county seats of 7,000 each are a thousand times more important to this Republic than one city of 7,000,000. Our unemployment and our unrest are the result of the concentration of wealth, the concentration of population in industrial centers, mass production, and a lot of other so-called modern improvements. "We are building a tower of Babel.

It was late January in Draper, Utah, and as picturesque as the snow on the mountains was, it did not mix well with our modern lifestyle.

I don't mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern consumer I consider it to be the most overrated.

I cannot read souls as well as Don Matteo does, but I see that in your past you have suffered from that great wound which afflicts modern man." "Which is. . .?" "The temptation to absolute despair.

In the Middle Ages, people would have pictures or statues of the Virgin Mary, or Jesus Christ, or a favourite saint. Today, people have pictures, posters or statues of celebrities: actors, sports stars, TV stars, fictional characters. Is that an improvement?

Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally. The further we push aloneness away, the less are we able to cope with it, and the more terrifying it gets.

Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally. The further we push aloneness away, the less are we able to cope with it, and the more terrifying it gets. Some philosophers believe that loneliness is the only true feeling there is.

He wondered if modern society, with its flood of information and tempest of noise, was only making us dumber.

Ockham snorted. "I am no nominalist. The problem with teaching the Modern Way is that lesser scholars, excited by the novelty, seldom bother to master my insights. There are lips on which I heartily wish my name had never rested. I tell you, Dietl, a man becomes a heretic less for what he writes than for what others believe he has written.

One thing that is clear is that we do not always want to relive the experience of the Romans; although sometimes what they did is entirely to be admired and envied, in other respects they were detestable. Most of what they achieved was based upon the use of force. The culture that has given us their unequaled masterpieces was created and maintained, in the last resort, by violent means that modern societies could not, or should not, tolerate today…

Cairo is an exploding modern metropolis which nevertheless preserves within its heart the finest medieval city in the world...

Make war by phone, make love by email.

Moderne Malerei ist jener Wandbehang, dem das häppchenverdrückende und plaudernde Publikum bei Vernissagen seinen Rücken zukehrt.

Die größte Sorge des zeitgenössischen Intellektuellen ist die, man könne ihn für altmodisch und gestrig halten. Das dürfte auch der Grund sein, warum die moderne Kunst inzwischen quasi unkritisierbar ist.

God withdrew from the temple in Ezekiel's day because He would not and could not dwell together with idolatry, immorality, and violence. The principle will never change—the Lamb will not be married to someone who remains wedded to his sins, in spite of what some modern teachers claim.

The old-fashioned method of evangelism was to make people weep, but the modern "Hollywood" way is to make people laugh. Everybody has to have a jolly good time. . . . We must have plenty of jokes or it would not be a good meeting. That is why there is such a woeful lack of conviction of sin in modern evangelism. The Holy Spirit cannot work in a frivolous atmosphere.

Amidst the rush and confusion of modern life something old and wise is trying to catch up with us. Whereas simple knowledge tends to divide things, genuine wisdom tends to make meaningful unity possible.

Chicago rising out of the Midwest like huge metallic cornstalks...

When these pocket computers started getting common, old people like me catastrophized about how bad it was going to be, but we were wrong. It's much worse. We've been looking at each other's faces for a million years. But now you don't see faces anymore. At night on the sidewalks of Toronto people walk around in the dark looking down into tiny lamplit rooms they hold in their hands.

Everything is relative but there is a standard which must not be deviated from, especially with reference to the basic culinary preparations. A. Escoffier The Complete Guide to the Art of Modern Cookery

Time and time again, as we will see, the brilliant forebears of modern neuroscience abandoned their fierce reasoning skills and, deus ex machina, threw in a spook at the end of their analysis.

we became truly modern only in 1999, with the launch of LiveJournal.