229 Quotes About Modernity
- Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
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- Author Antonio Gramsci
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The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
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- Author Zygmunt Bauman
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The updated version of Descartes’s Cogito is ‘I am seen, therefore I am’ – and that the more people who see me, the more I am…
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- Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions
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- Author Vizi Andrei
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In an abundant world, productivity is about eliminating bad habits; then adding good ones.In an abundant world, knowledge is about filtering, rather than gathering, information.In an abundant world, discipline is the new freedom.In an abundant world―less is more; and more is less.
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- Author Jurgen Habermas
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Today, the language of the market penetrates every pore and forces every interpersonal relation into the schema of individual preference.
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- Author Ursula K. Le Guin
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You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes – the walls, the walls!
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- Author Alain de Botton
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Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.
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- Author Robert Hughes
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Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.
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