Quotes About Modern

'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.

The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.

In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.

Too much concern about physical security and too little concern about spirituality is the hallmark of today's world.

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

Our boys were all preparing to be peaceful professional Scottish public servants, using the most humane modern ideas to tacle what we knew to be the great task of the twentieth century - to make a Britain where everyone has a good clean home and is well paid for useful work.

I used to think Denny was foolish because she had no definite ideas about the world. I had very definite ideas: the world was a mess, but its problems could be solved by modern technology, and when Alan and I left college we would begin to improve things. I was an ignorant git. If intelligence asks searching questions and does not relax on a pile of glib answers Denny was the intelligent half of us.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

The importance of C.F. Gauss for the development of modern physical theory and especially for the mathematical fundament of the theory of relativity is overwhelming indeed; also his achievement of the system of absolute measurement in the field of electromagnetism. In my opinion it is impossible to achieve a coherent objective picture of the world on the basis of concepts which are taken more or less from inner psychological experience.

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories.

And to think, Will Farnaby commented, to think that people complain about modern life having no meaning! Look at what life was like when it did have a meaning. A tale told by an idiot or a tale told by a Calvinist? Give me the idiot every time.

Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt, vigilemus...

We haven't any use for old things here." "Even when they're beautiful?" "Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones." "But the new ones are so stupid and horrible.

it is natural to believe in God when you're alone—quite alone, in the night, thinking about death . . ." "But people never are alone now," said Mustapha Mond. "We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it's almost impossible for them ever to have it.

Nothing like modern art for sterilizing the life out of things.

We haven't any use for old things here." "Even when they're beautiful?" "Particularly when they're beautiful.

Linda was dying in company - in company and with all modern conveniences.

Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system.

La belleza ejerce una atracción, y nosotros no queremos que la gente se sienta atraída por cosas antiguas. Queremos que les gusten las nuevas.

Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.

Nobody reads poetry anymore So who the hell are you I see bent over this book?

All I have to say is, people no longer know how to love nowadays.