Modernity Quotes
Modernity Quote of the day
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free
Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.
Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity.
As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who enter the world of fluid modernity.
If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.
Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.
Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.
Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a decisive value in itself.
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars.
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.
you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.
A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.
The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.
You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.
Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity.
America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.
America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.
And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.
The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.
I'm operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is not design, it's my attempt to engage with the trajectory of modernity.
A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.
I really enjoyed Casino Royale because suddenly something changed with this modernity and with Daniel bringing life to James Bond in a very new way.
The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.
One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.
Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.