229 Quotes About Modernity


  • Author Julius Evola
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    With respect to modern civilisation and society, it may indeed be said that nothing possesses a more revolutionary character than Tradition, which — in proper and Hegelian terms  — constitutes the ‘negation of a negation’: for the latter is what, through ‘progress’, has desecrated everything and subverted every normal order, leading us to the state we find ourselves in today.

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  • Author Philip Wyeth
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    Have we not already seen the cultural malaise of the past fifty years, as people living within this worldwide cargo cult have been divorced from the need to produce anything, as well as from the consequences of their own actions? They have incrementally been separated from the land, from their factories, from creating art, and now they even abandon marriage and reproduction.

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  • Author Ehsan Sehgal
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    The modernity of thought and living has always been an integral part of every human generation. However, what we call the modern today, becomes dated tomorrow.

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  • Author Anne Gisleson
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    The letter suddenly seemed like my most important possession, and like all the real, handwritten, postally delivered letters these days, an instant relic from a previous era, before time and space collapsed and we started sending messages to each other's pockets.

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  • Author Umberto Eco
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    Сто раз из ста, когда критик или читатель пишут или говорят, что мой герой высказывает чересчур современные мысли, – в каждом случае речь идет о буквальных цитатах из текстов XIV. А на других страницах читающие находили «утонченно средневековые» пассажи, которые я писал, сознавая, что неприлично модернизирую. Все дело в том, что у каждого есть собственное понятие – обычно извращенное – о средних веках. Только нам, тогдашним монахам, открыта истина. Но за нее, бывает, жгут на костре.

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  • Author Daniel Schwindt
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    Modern man is an island, in a historical sense. Every society born of revolution is an island, and it is an island that floats, like a thin film on the surface of history. He is always moving, disconnected from all that came before him, and never holding still long enough to strike the roots necessary to pass something on to those who will come after.

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