229 Quotes About Modernity
- Author Joseph Roach
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Modern anxiety is expressed in the longing for what most people fear, even as modern grief is expressed in the unconsummated mourning for what they never really had.
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- Author Evelyn Waugh
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You know," he added reflectively, "we've got a much easier job now than we should have had fifty years ago. If we'd had to modernise a country then it would have meant constitutional monarchy, bicameral legislature, proportional representation, women's suffrage, independent judicature, freedom of the press, referendums . . .""What is all that?" asked the Emperor."Just a few ideas that have ceased to be modern.
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- Author J.S.B. Morse
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People today are dying for something to live for.
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- Author A.J. Orde
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Pre-high tech, objects thunked and crashed and clopped, amid a thunder of drums, a tumult of trumpets. Today things beep and cheep and whistle. We have come from the roar of the lion to the chirp of the tree frog, ceaselessly bleating our identities while the frog-eating bats hover above us.
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- Author Marianne Williamson
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The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one’s influence wide to learn how to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in our souls. Then, and only then, will we create a world that reflects the heart instead of shattering it.
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- Author Matthew Arnold
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The Sea of FaithWas once, too, at the full, and round earth's shoreLay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.But now I only hearIts melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,Retreating, to the breathOf the night-wind, down the vast edges drearAnd naked shingles of the world.
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- Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The opposite of manliness isn’t cowardice; it’s technology.
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- Author Richard M. Weaver
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The typical modern has the look of the hunted.
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- Author T S Eliot
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And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people:Their only monument the asphalt roadAnd a thousand lost golf balls.
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