Quotes About Modern

Someone enjoying a good perve, no doubt. Well, and why not? There wasn't much else to enjoy, these days.

the modern generation being flippant and superficial. He says that we are losing the old ideals of earnest endeavour and true scholarship; and particularly is this falling-off noticeable in our disrespectful attitude towards organized authority. We no longer pay a seemly deference to our superiors. I

I shall call modern that art which ... presents the fact that the unpresentable exists. To make visible that there is something which can be conceived and which can neither be seen nor made visible.

Her body has become unused to electric comforts.

Les données de la génétique, de la paléontologie et de l'archéologie concourent pour démontrer que l'homme moderne a émergé en Afrique il y a environ 150 000 ans, avant de sortir du continent entre 60 000 et 50 000 ans.

we now live in a society

One might almost say that to live in society today is something like living inside an enormous comic strip.

We are not designed to deal with the many stress-inducing situations of the twenty-first century. For most of human history, the stressors we faced were mainly physical, like running away from wild animals. Now they are almost entirely psychological. When was the last time you were frightened by a lion? The things that cause us stress in our modern world are the ones that go inside our heads.

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.

The results are in and the cell phone has become the most isruptive aspect of work and everyday life. With more than four fifths of the population sporting these little gadgets, it's now taken as a given that any part of your day is subject to disruption.

Each of us was born in an era when complexity has become the hallmark of our existence.

No previous generation on earth has had more competing demands for its time and attention than this one.

In his entire life, George Washington never spent a second watching CNN Headline News or making a Facebook post, and he had no Twitter followers!

Today, merely being born guarantees that you will face a never-ending stream of complexity within your home, on the highway, at work, and everywhere in between.

I don't know what a guy needs to do to impress a girl these days.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

The modern geek is more than just a refined version of the stereotypical movie geek from the '80s.

Ten years ago, we would have been writing perfect stories, but people's attention spans have become more limited in these, the last days of literacy.

I also liked the ocean, and I found staring at it had a calming effect. The air was so clean, so fresh, while the world back beyond the border was what it had always been during the modern era: dirty, tired, imperfect, winding down, at war with itself. Back there, I had always felt as if my work amounted to a futile attempt to save us from who we are.

The impatient, feckless reader, posessed of no glimmer of intellectual or historical curiosity, should do an old historian a favor and skip the next few pages, proceeding directly to the Silence itself (Part III). I would assume that, in these horrid modern times, that will include most of you. Of course, those readers least likely to read these footnotes, and thus least likely to appreciate the next few pages, will skip this note and bore themselves upon the ennui of history .

He believed a kind of fragmentation had crept into people's minds in the modern era.

People say that modern life has grown so complicated, so busy, so crowded that we have to hurry even to survive. We need not accept that idea. It is quite possible to live in the midst of a highly developed technological society and keep an easy, relaxed pace while doing a lot of hard work. We have a choice.

Modern nonreligious man assumes a tragic existence and his existential choice is not without its greatness.

I think that modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.