Quotes of: Modern-music Keyword

But smile faded as he thought of what other provisions the contained. What would the godly say when they learned that the electorate was no longer to be limited to but broadened to include propertied members of every Christian sect this side of papis...

The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials

{ } magnificent work, which added an incalculable sum to the wealth of America and left him a comparatively poor man, is well known. His own simple account of his discoveries runs to 12 volumes and is incomplete. I was one of the few men whom he admi...

A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Medieval and Modern Freethinkers

People do more for their fellows than return favors and punish cheaters. They often perform generous acts without the slightest hope for payback ranging from leaving a tip in a restaurant they will never visit again to throwing themselves on a live g...

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

A student of Syrian affairs soon becomes used to paradox. A comparatively small country, narrowly chauvinistic and jealous of its national sovereignty, Syria is nevertheless the repository, and has often been the origin, of oecumenical and transcende...

The Ba'th and the Creation of Modern Syria

The first phase of modernism, which so far as the English language goes we associate with Pound and Yeats, Wyndham Lewis and Eliot and Joyce, was clerkly enough, sceptical in many ways; and yet we can without difficulty convict most of these authors ...

The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction

We do not need definite beliefs because their objects are necessarily true. We need them because they enable us to stand on steady spots from which the truth may be glimpsed. And not simply glimpsed—because certainly revelation is available outside...

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

Because of this false idea, they devised an aesthetic belief in making the exterior of an object a reflection of the practical functions of the interior and of the constructive idea. Yet these analyses of utility and necessity that, according to thei...

The Situationists and the City: A Reader

If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be equally critical of evangelical (and especially American) Christianity's modernity and its appropriation of Enlightenment notions of the autonomous...

Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

People who really appreciated animals always asked their names.

The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern

I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand

Criticism and Reviews

Modernization, socialization, and progression doesn’t alter nor permit discarding the morals and the laws one should abide themselves too.

The Ellison Effect

The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially

Elements of the Philosophy of Right

In the modern food landscape, the Krafts, Monsantos, and Archer Daniels Midlands are standing in the way of food democracy.

Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it.

False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The modern world, in comparison, ignores it.

The Four Loves

The great danger of law in modern student affairs practice is apathy, acceptance, and blind disobedience.

Foundations of Higher Education Law and Policy

was a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science.

A History Of Mathematical Statistics From 1750 To 1930

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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