229 Quotes About Modernity
- Author G.K. Chesterton
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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
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- Author Brad Miner
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To be properly educated, one must reject contemporary pedagogical enthusiasms.
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- Author Donald Barthelme
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The death of God left the angels in a strange position.
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- Author Ryszard Legutko
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The actors in this sexual revolution bore a closer resemblance to Plato's "huge strong beast" that could be easily tamed by clever guardians than Nietzsche's independent Supermen impelled solely by their own inner dynamic.
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- Author Adyashanti
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The sacred dimension is not something that you can know through words and ideas any more than you can learn what an apple pie tastes like by eating the recipe. The modern age has forgotten that facts and information, for all their usefulness, are not the same as truth or wisdom, and certainly not the same as direct experience.
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- Author A. H. Septimius
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The debauched reign of Tiberius now looks almost irreproachable, the riotous city of ancient Babylon seemingly incorruptible, and the old harems of the Sublime Port practically nunneries. For something is dangerously wrong, and yet there are few if any who question the prevalent moral paradigm.
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- Author Francis Beauchesne Thornton
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The modern world has forgotten the necessity of encouraging men to be better. They speak of sick men or healthy men, of interesting people or uninteresting people; they never, or seldom, indicate that there is and must be an interior and spiritual improvement in man before any of the glowing coals of humanity can be reached. They have cultivated everything but the goodness of man. The result of such shallowness is everywhere apparent.
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- Author Barry Pain
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Modernity kills ghostly romance("The Undying Thing")
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- Author Criss Jami
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She's tragically scarred with an avant-garde, spastic heart - yet radically guarded (anti-romantic garden) - tactless, though perhaps smarter; and so her soul carries an ego too heavy to be swept off her feet: Modernity's narcissist.
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