Quotes of: Modern-world Keyword

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas. It may be said even that the modern world, as a corporate body, holds certain dogmas so strongly that it does not know that they are dogm...

Heretics

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

When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors?

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

In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.

Real Wyrd : A Modern Shaman's Roots in the Middle World

But the consequences of the whole-hearted and uncritical embrace of politics by Christians has been, IN EFFECT, to reduce Christian faith to a political ideology and various Christian denominations and para-church organizations as special interest gr...

To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

In the seeker-church movement the emphasis away from the use and explication of creedal confession is obvious, since the whole point is to focus on the 'felt-needs' of the person in the pew - especially the felt-needs of nonbelievers. The rationale i...

To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

So long as we are driven by the need to make up for our needs; by the restless sense that we are not yet fully assured of our place in the world and our hold on its swarming phenomena; so long as there is more to be discovered and made, more to grasp...

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

From my earliest works written in the 1950s and 1960s, I have claimed that there is such a thing as Islamic science with a twelve-hundred-year tradition of its own and that this science is Islamic not only because it was cultivated by Muslims, but be...

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

Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-...

The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous Peoples Meet

A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Time is in essence separation; separation produces pain; pain poesis; and poesis is what constitutes the unending stream of human life in this world.

Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India

Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is ‘open-minded’ and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware.

Revolt Against the Modern World

It's important to talk about fringe-of-the-fringe experiences, not just to show the humanity of intuitives, but to show humanity the commonness of intuition.

Real Wyrd : A Modern Shaman's Roots in the Middle World

Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. (9)

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.

Ben Goldacre

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern