229 Quotes About Modernity





  • Author Vizi Andrei
  • Quote

    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.

  • Tags
  • Share


  • Author Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Quote

    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!

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Alain de Botton
  • Quote

    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.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Robert Hughes
  • Quote

    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.

  • Tags
  • Share