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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.
Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.
In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.
Every member of the priesthood should understand the divine plan designed by the Lord to raise up the first free people in modern times.
We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.
We live in a very modern age and the dynamic of raising kids and being a professional are intersecting a lot more - especially for women.
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.
The problem with modern consumption and mass-produced products is they're designed to just literally be shoved into our mouths and rushed.
The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.
Some modern scholars contend that in terms of what "religion" was in that [Roman-era setting], you can't even call Christianity a religion.
Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society.
I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one.
Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity - you couldn't flush the toilet without it. It's a huge dependency situation.
I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.
Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.
In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.
Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.
I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.
Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. It is a scourge for humanity, and America must project its values and protect vulnerable persons.
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.
You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.
As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.
I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.
On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.
The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.
I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going.
The older Mercedes is absolutely beautiful. It's got that lovely purring feeling as the engine ticks over, which you just don't get in a modern car.
I don't really like the bands that think they're still in 1982. It's boring. When retro sounds are combined with a modern approach, it can be great.
In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.
Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.
Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.
The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.
More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, whether remotely piloted aircraft or cyber weapons.
Through the miracles of modern medicine George Burns still chases pretty girls, and through the miracle of modern psychiatry he intends to find out why!