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The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance.

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

While information is the oxygen of the modern age, disinformation is the carbon monoxide that can poison generations.

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

Cloud Atlas

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

Alex Campbell

Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.

Norman Lamm

We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.

Bernard Werber

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

Charles Frazier

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

Johnny Ball

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

Chaim Potok

It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.

Christian Slater

Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.

Kenneth Frampton

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left a...

Leon Krier

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

Tadao Ando

What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?

Activist Faith: From Him and For Him

His attitude to physical clues was rather like that of the modern Christian to miracles. They could happen, but probably not just at the moment.

An April Shroud

I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.

Heretics

The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.

How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

Ideas Have Consequences

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.

The Road to Oxiana