Quotes of: Modern-age Keyword

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

David Lodge

The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.

Nancy Gibbs

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

Henry A. Wallace

Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. For one thing, Aristotle and Aquinas never watched television.

Poetics of Imagining: Modern and Post-Modern

To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.

The Age Of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy

I am grieved for my children—and boy’s in particular—that this modern age is emasculating men under the guise of “the best interest of the children”.

H. Kirk Rainer

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Octavio Paz

And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

The Age Of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy

Few poets better convey the uneasy transition from Victorianism to Modernism than Thomas Hardy. His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made him not only the recorder of his distinctive region of 'Wessex', but the explorer of the transition of liv...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.

Ian Mckellen

In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.

Rashid al-Ghannushi

It may well be that an analysis of figures would reveal a law - the duration of a marriage is inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding. Or, to put it another way, any union celebrated with personalized toasting flutes is doomed.

The Age Of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy

Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.

The Age Of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy

What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.

John Gresham Machen

History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.

Age of Hirohito: In Search of Modern Japan

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new...

The Age Of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy

The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for specific recognition into a generaliz...

The Age Of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.

Rowan Williams

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Thomas Szasz

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

Umberto Eco

Imagine someone sitting alone in a room without television, radio, computer or phone and with the door closed and the blinds down. This person must be a dangerous lunatic or a prisoner sentenced to solitary confinement. If a free agent, then a panty-...

The Age Of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy