Quotes of: Modern-man Keyword

Your dissatisfaction with yourself speaks of a self-absorption, a vanity, which always gets in the way of your truly coming to rejoice in life.

Don't Despair: Letters to a Modern Man

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

The present importance of the Book of Job cannot be expressed adequately even by saying that it is the most interesting of ancient books. We may almost say of the Book of Job that it is the most interesting of modern books. In truth, of course, neith...

The Book of Job

Horse [Man you will find here a new representation of the universe at its most poetic and most modern Man man man man man man Give yourself up to this art where the sublime does not exclude charm and brilliancy does not blur the nuance it is now or n...

Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War

...the hippies of the 1960s did understand something. They were right in fighting the plastic culture, and the church should have been fighting it too... More than this, they were right in the fact that the plastic culture - modern man, the mechanist...

Pollution & the Death of Man

John Oldman: Why not pass the Buddha's teachings on in a modern form.

The Man from Earth

The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his mo...

C.S. Lewis

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

Emily Post

If evolutionism were to be rejected, the whole structure upon which the modern world is based would collapse and one would have to accept the incredible wisdom of the Creator in the creation of the multiplicity of life forms which we see on the surfa...

A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World

A life of joy awaits the man who sits alone quietly in a room and determines what he himself believes rather than simply adopting the values of another.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

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

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Disgusted by the abuses to which it led, humanity repressed Christianity by which it had so long been dominated. Repressed, but not eliminated. Herein lies, I believe, the essence of the tragedy of modern times. The modern man lives as if Christianit...

The Whole Person in a Broken World

Nowhere in the history of man has there existed someone with your particular set of experiences and skills, which means there exists a mode of play that you are unequivocally predestined to succeed in more than any other.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

The Man Who Was Thursday

In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.

One and a Half Wife

Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such...

John Ruskin