Modern Quotes

When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

Everything you use in a modern life style has to be made using a tool of some sort.

Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.

The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy.

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.

Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.

A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.

Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world

[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.

For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.

Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish

Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.

This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments.

...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge.

To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded.

God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.

Modern women - we're very good at keeping ourselves busy. There are PTA meetings, exercising, bake sales at school. I like that my life is not the same every day.

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.

This is the first great problem of modern democracy...how to get a fair living by reasonable hours of work leaving enough leisure for both childhood and manhood.

The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul.