Quotes of: Modern-world Keyword

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

Science and the Modern World

Pain is the only pleasure in the world, this is the biggest paradox!

SHE- Stories of Modern Indian Women

The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered...it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wande...

G.K. Chesterton

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

Patricia Hewitt

In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's cling...

Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

The incommensurability between the modern economic system and the people who staff it explains why modern workers have so often been depicted as 'cogs' in the larger 'machinery' of industrial civilization; for while the practical rationalization of e...

Way of the (Modern) World

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

Emily Greene Balch

Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world ...

The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

All knowledge pursued merely for the enrichment of personal learning and the accumulation of personal treasure leads you away from the path; but all knowledge pursued for growth to ripeness within the process of human ennoblement and cosmic developme...

How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation

The question, therefore, is not whether one should teach philosophy to Muslim students, but rather what kind or kinds of philosophy should be taught and how the subject should be approached.

Islam in the Modern World: Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition

The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability, both political and economic.

The New Deal in Old Rome: How Government in the Ancient World Tried to Deal with Modern Problems

The theory of evolution also had a very great effect in alienating science from religion and creating a world in which one could go about studying the wonders of creation without ever having a sense of wonder in the religious sense of that term.

A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World

It is necessary to have “watchers” at hand who will bear witness to the values of Tradition in ever more uncompromising and firm ways, as the anti-traditional forces grow in strength. Even though these values cannot be achieved, it does not mean ...

Revolt Against the Modern World

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

Howard Hodgkin

Time travelers tend, as a group, to have a lot of hobbies.

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

... history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless.

The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World

Most people operate within a margin of plus or minus several minutes.

Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World

... if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.

Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World

The heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility. You can only acquire right knowledge when you have learnt to esteem it. Man has certainly the right to turn his eyes to the light, but he must first acquire thi...

How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation

By focusing exclusively on the events of the day, journalism all but severs the connection between time and eternity. It makes the world appear to be nothing but an endless jumble of events through which it is difficult, if not impossible, to discern...

Way of the (Modern) World