229 Quotes About Modernity
- Author Steven Magee
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Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern society than you are from any form of terrorism.
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- Author Criss Jami
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Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society.
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- Author Amit Kalantri
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Search engines finds the information, not necessarily the truth.
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- Author William Barrett
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This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's power. With it he has transformed the planet, annihilated space, and trebled the world's population. But it is also a power which has, like everything human, its negative side, in the desolating sense of rootlessness, vacuity, and the lack of concrete feeling that assails modern man in his moments of real anxiety.
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- Author Yuval Noah Harari
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We have more choice than ever before, but no matter what we choose, we have lost the ability to really pay attention to it.
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- Author Oscar Wilde
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.
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- Author St. Antony the Great
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A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.
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- Author Rana Dasgupta
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When they brought in communism it was for the people, so they killed the people. Now they've brought in capitalism, which is for the rich, so they only kill the rich. This time you and I have nothing to worry about.
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- Author Leszek Kolakowski
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A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.
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