Modernity Quotes
Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity, science and reason.
Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.
It's easy, almost comforting, to dismiss Trumpism as the cry of laid-off men in rust-belt states shaking their wrinkled fists at the juggernaut of modernity.
Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.
North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.
Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.
Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.
Modernity has created more problems than it is capable of solving. Millions of people are now condemned to wait endlessly for their redemption through modernity.
Helping Africans navigate the transition to modernity with a huge, wonderful wildlife resource still intact.
I do think there is a lack of modernity at the moment - and I don't even like that word, modernity, anymore. There aren't enough designers today anyway - there are more stylists.
If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.
ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them back to the Stone Age.
We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.
Throughout early modernity there were very strong pressures on Jews to assimilate. Assimilating meant cutting your ties with the community of origin.
I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.
It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.
Modernity kills ghostly romance("The Undying Thing")
It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells.
Welcome to the 21st century cosmopolitan world where biased thoughts preside over unbiased deeds, simple gestures become overrated gossip materials and injustice is a part of long term justice.
It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.
Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society.
Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern society than you are from any form of terrorism.
Although we, as Christians, are living in Sodom, we are not to become citizens of Sodom. . The story of Sodom is God's reminder to the modern world
Modern anxiety is expressed in the longing for what most people fear, even as modern grief is expressed in the unconsummated mourning for what they never really had.
The great pagan sadness of modern man is largely due to his premonition of ultimate disaster.
This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.
Give as much as importance to your goal as you give it to your first girlfriend, with that much importance your girlfriend might still leave you but your goal will definitely come to you.
People don't want the truth, ' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality lies. High definition lies on fifty-inch screens.
The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing.
This was progress. This was modernity: you could cover over the past completely. You could bury the old under a relentless surface of new, stretched from corner to corner.
The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.
The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh.
They said, Now we are capitalists! but all Ulrich could see was criminality to a principle.
Today, the language of the market penetrates every pore and forces every interpersonal relation into the schema of individual preference.
On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?
In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.
