126 Quotes About Modernism

Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future.Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

Patriotism is defensive; nationalism is aggressive. Patriotism is the love of a particular land, with its particular traditions; nationalism is the love of something less tangible, of the myth of a "people," justifying many things, a political and ideological substitute for religion. Patriotism is old-fashioned (and, at times and in some places, aristocratic); nationalism is modern and populist.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

Don’t just modernize and digitize your business, but also yourself.

I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centered, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.

Ai, que preguiça!

If long and meandering postmodern zaniness and stale, rip-off modernism are now the Culture, then it is not itself. It has been stricken by dementia. I’m here now to jog its memory one last time and then deliver it to a dignified death.

The whole tendency of modern prose is away from concreteness.

We have become so preoccupied in clicking, capturing and caging memories that we have forgotten to live them first.