Quotes of: Modern-age Keyword

People who have made comparative studies of many different societies, know that when status is ascribed, rather than achieved, individual efforts towards excellence are not directed through any form of innovation; rather, the enhancement of status oc...

Fatalism And Development: Nepal's Struggle For Modernization

In 1940, we knew who we were, we knew who the enemy was, we knew the dangers and the issues," he told me when I pressed him for a reading of the struggle against Islamic radicalism. "In our island, we knew we would prevail, that the Americans would b...

What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East

Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in such a favourable position with regard to the sources of our knowledge of human nature. Psychology, ethnology, anthropology, and history have amassed an ...

An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

The History Teacher Trying to protect his students' innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a period of a million years when everyone had to wear sweaters. And the Stone Age became the Gravel Age, named after the long drive...

Questions About Angels

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and ugliness; accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced...

Hermann Hesse

At the age of 41, I'm glad I still have hair.

Tony Stewart

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

S. Jay Olshansky

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

Nancy Banks Smith

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Richard Meier

Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do, the most essential, even spiritual, ideas of their art.

Eric Kandel

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

Ryan Kwanten

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

An Ideal Husband

World needs a new order of modern economy.

Master of Stupidity

Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.

P. J. O'Rourke

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

Peter Gay

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

Penn Jillette

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

P. J. O'Rourke

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

Rudolf Bing

The biggest threats to human survival today are not wars or conflict, it is modern business.

Steven Magee

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

T. E. Lawrence

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

Karl Lagerfeld