229 Quotes About Modernity
- Author Zygmunt Bauman
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Thorough, adamant and uncompromising privatization of all concerns has been the main factor that has rendered postmodern society so spectacularly immune to systemic critique and radical social dissent with revolutionary potential.
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- Author Peter Beilharz
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The world of the sorcerer’s apprentice – a world without an ‘off’ switch? Is that the world we inhabit?
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- Author Theodor Fontane
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Nothing holds out these days, and next thing you know we’ll be counting those who are famous by days.
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- Author Oscar Wilde
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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediævalism.
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- Author Valeria Luiselli
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Something changed in the world. Not too long ago, it changed, and we know it. We don't know how to explain it yet, but I think we all can feel it, somewhere deep in our gut or in our brain circuits. We feel time differently. No one has quite been able to capture what is happening or say why. Perhaps it's just that we sense an absence of future, because the present has become too overwhelming, so the future has become unimaginable. And without future, time feels like only an accumulation.
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- Author Michel Houellebecq
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Scenes unworthy of a modern country', wrote the journalist without realising that they were in fact the proof that France was becoming a modern country, that only an authentically modern country was capable of treating old people purely as rubbish.
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- Author Matt Haig
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She looks at me and smiles in that brisk efficient way. A modern professional smile. the kind of smile that never existed before, say, the telephone.
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- Author Arnold Hauser
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The doctrine of spontaneous naturalism of Renaissance comes from the same source as the theory that the fight against the spirit of authority and hierarchy, the ideal of freedom of thought and freedom of conscience, the emancipation of the individual and the principle of democracy are achievements of fifteenth century. In all this light of the modern age is contrasted with the darkness of the Middle Ages.
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- Author Xinran
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This generation possessed freedom and material wealth their elders could only dream of, and they looked for the miracle of love in the void between Chinese and Western culture. They created idealised versions of themselves on the internet, and pushed the boundaries of what they thought love could be. But as this generation grew accustomed to the loneliness of living without brothers and sisters, the family could no longer be considered the backbone of Chinese culture.
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