Modern Quotes - Page 20

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.

Every member of the priesthood should understand the divine plan designed by the Lord to raise up the first free people in modern times.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

Modernism probably wouldn't have happened without lesbians in Paris.

The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

Modern science is predicated on "truths" verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.

We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.

He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.

One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.

At the emergence of the modern novel with Rabelais and Cervantes, all kinds of things were possible in a long-form prose work. Within a couple of hundred years, most of those possibilities were abandoned in favor of a text that efficiently transmitted sentiments.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.