229 Quotes About Modernity
- Author Italo Calvino
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All places communicate instantly with all other places, a sense of isolation is felt only during the trip between one place and the other, that is, when you are in no place.
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- Author G.K. Chesterton
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For the modern world will accept no dogmas upon any authority; but it will accept any dogmas on no authority. Say that a thing is so, according to the Pope or the Bible, and it will be dismissed as a superstition without examination. But preface your remark merely with "they say" or "don't you know that?" or try (and fail) to rememver the name of some professor mentioned in some newspaper; and the keen rationalism of the modern mind will accept every word you say.
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- Author Guy Mankowski
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Sam marvelled at how easily people walked off the street and into these decadent dioramas. It was spooky how easily people’s inner landscapes were expressed in enclosed booths and glittering bars. Their private nightmares slid into the moulded furniture as if it had been designed for them.
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- Author Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
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Modern hayat ölüm düşüncesinden uzaklaşmayı emreder. Hem ne oluyor kuzum, kendi hayatımızı mı yaşayacağız. Yoksa ölüleri mi bekleyeceğiz?
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- Author George A. Panichas
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...inner life is inadequately recognised or honoured by many conservative leaders and spokesmen, in word or in work. In effect the theology of conservatism has been sacrificed to the new gods and the new morality of modernity. The discipline of spiritual conservatism has been manifestly lessened by its own peculiar form of liberation theology, as it were, and by the purely quantitative point of view prevailing in the marketplace of ideas.
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- Author Virginia Woolf
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En el siglo XVIII, sabíamos cómo se hacía cada cosa; pero aquí subo por el aire, oigo voces de América, veo volar a los hombres, y ni siquiera puedo adivinar cómo se hace todo. Vuelvo a creer en la magia.
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- Author Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. In our mad rush for progress and modern improvements let's be sure we take along with us all the old-fashioned things worth while.
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- Author Shelby Foote
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Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In theory, emancipation was one of the glories of our democracy - and it was. But the way it was done led to tragedy, turning four million people loose with no jobs or trades or learning. And then in 1877 for a few electoral votes, just abandoning them entirely. A huge amount of pain and trouble resulted. Everybody in America is still paying for it.
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- Author Don DeLillo
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That clean but lonely feeling when there are no other cars. The traffic lights changing just for you.
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