Quotes About Modern

Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.

It is pointless and impossible to maintain a modern ideology based on inaccurate memories of a dead and distant past.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

I think a lot of the romantic comedies need to catch up with what's actually kind of happening.

Much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it's texting or emailing or Facebooking, there's a kind of distance between the participants.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

contemporaries,

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

You're way behind the times. Doesn't matter how handy it is. People get rid of anything old. That's modern life for ya.

Today, though, we live in the aftermath of the shattering of Jewish faith, brought on in part by Western secularism and the Holocaust. Whatever faith has managed to survive our experiences in the modern world would be tested to the breaking point by the destruction of Israel. Few Jews, I suspect, would accept another narrative of Divine punishment. Even for many religious Jews, this would be one punishment too many.

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

Shunsuké hated the preoccupation with modern psychology that judged his casual, offhand remarks or his daily actions as betraying his identity or ideas with better clarity than did his highly polished sentences.

The estrangement of body and spirit in modern society is an almost universal phenomenon, and there is nobody—the reader may feel—who would fail to deplore it; so that to prate emotionally about the body "thinking" or the "loquacity" of the flesh is going too far, and by using such phrases I am merely covering up my own confusion.

Cómo soportar una época que ha manchado todo lo que en otros tiempos era sagrado?

Once passion was set in motion according to its own laws, then it was irresistible. This was a theory that would never be accepted by modern law, which took it as self-evident that conscience and reason ruled man.

China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.

Such religion as there can be in modern life, every individual will have to salvage from the churches for himself.

The romantic contrast between modern industry that "destroys nature" and our ancestors who "lived in harmony with nature" is groundless. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the record among all organisms for driving the most plant and animal species to their extinctions. We have the dubious distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of life.

The greatest crimes in modern history resulted not just from hatred and greed, but even more so from ignorance and indifference.

Earlier traditions usually formulated their theories in terms of stories. Modern science uses mathematics.

The human collective knows far more today than did the ancient bands. But at the individual level, ancient foragers were the most knowledgeable and skilful people in history.