229 Quotes About Modernity
- Author Harvey Cox
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The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
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- Author Wisława Szymborska
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We leven langer,maar minder nauwkeurigen in kortere zinnen.
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- Author Pär Rådström
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Han var mycket modern, långt före de flesta. Nu är det ju så att det är svårt att vara modern före någon annan. För att vara modern måste man vara minst två. Moderniteten måste förborgerligas för att bli erkänd som modernitet annars blir den bara bisarreri.
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- Author Nicolas Gomez Davila
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Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but seeks refuge in a dogma.
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- Author Michel Foucault
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It is comforting, however, and a source of profound relief to think that man is only a recent invention, a figure not yet two centuries old, a new wrinkle in our knowledge, and that he will disappear again as soon as that knowledge has discovered a new form.
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- Author Charles Baudelaire
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
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- Author Philip K. Dick
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There is certainly no hope left of getting away. And it isn't even terrible; it's possibly funny, if even that. It's embarrassing. That's all. A little embarrassing to realize that I no longer control my life, that the major decisions have already been made, long before I was conscious that any change was occurring.
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- Author Theodor W. Adorno
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Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is sufficiently hard to shatter myths is ultimately self-destructive.
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- Author Natsume Sōseki
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But once I could look back on it in a calmer frame of mind, it struck me that his motive was surely not so simple and straightforward. Had it resulted from a fatal collision between reality and ideals? Perhaps—but this was still not quite it. Eventually, I began to wonder whether it was not the same unbearable loneliness that I now felt that had brought K to his decision.
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