Quotes About Modern

The cause of the modern disease is the conviction that man can cure himself.

To live is modern man's only value. Even the modern hero does not die except in the name of life.

So wie es keine Tragödie gibt außer unter Fürsten und unter Götter, so gibt es keine Architektur außer für Götter und für Fürsten. Die moderne Architektur ist ein bürgerliches Melodrama.

If the left continues adopting, one after another, the objections that we reactionaries have raised against the modern world, we will have to become leftists.

Optimisim is a fairly modern invention. — Classical literature lacks this vulgar sentiment.

By embracing the "modern mentality," Christianity became a doctrine which it is not easy to respect, nor interesting to do so.

When the modern consciousness suspends its economic routines, it only oscillates between political anguish and sexual obsession.

When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free.

It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.

Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. The things these scribblers write!

All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.

Layla draws on her electronic cigarette. This is what the future looks like, Scott thinks. We smoke technology now.

Every modern woman who rejects the double standard, who combines a career with life as a mother, who demands personal

If women are trapped by the whore/Madonna complex, men are equally trapped by this warrior/minstrel complex. What's more, while a man is expected to be modern, that is, to support feminism in all its particulars, to see and treat women as equals in every respect, he is on the other hand often still expected to be traditional at the same time, to treat a lady like a lady, to lead the way and pick up the check.

This book is devoted to the impact of the Gibbsian point of view on modern life, both through the substantive changes it has made in working science, and through the changes it has made indirectly in our attitude to life in general. Thus the following chapters contain an element of technical description as well as a philosophic component which concerns what we do and how we should react to the new world that confronts us.

The natural role of the twentieth-century man is anxiety.

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

That's what cell phones are for—to mask our rapidly progressing helplessness vis-à-vis the real world when we find ourselves face to face with it.

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

In the thirteenth century, however, a really great scientific man appeared, who may be said to herald the dawn of modern science in Europe. This man was Roger Bacon. He

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

Modern world history began with the discovery of the Self and attained its summit in the eventual awareness of the Absolute Self.