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  • Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fantasy. They're about real life. We've all encountered wicked wolves, found fairy godmothers, and faced trial by fire. We've all set off into unknown woods at one point in life or another. We've all had to learn to tell friend from foe and to be kind to crones by the side of the road. . . .

    Real   Thinking   Fire  
  • Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.

    Tyrants   Age   Modern  
    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks
  • It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

    Technology   Age   Modern  
  • Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.

  • Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and vice we all stand upon thin ice. Are we brave or are we mice, here upon such thin, thin ice? Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

    Dean Koontz, “Dragon Tears”
  • The language of theism which was familiar to the people, gave Gandhi the advantage of easy communication with the people, but it is atheistic in principle. It could have been the starting point for the atheistic movement in the modern age.

  • We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern age is that you are able to source answers, and sometimes the genius is in the combination of ideas and energy that does not reside in only one person.

    Pain   Ideas   Age  
  • Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be sustained because meaninglessness, anomie, and despair will corrode the desire to be sustained and the belief that humanity is worth sustaining. But these are the very things that distinguish the modern age from its predecessors, Genuine sustainability, in other words, will come not from superficial changes but from a deeper process akin to humankind growing up to a fuller stature.

  • Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

    Political   Age   Spheres  
    "Milton's republic" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2008.
  • From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

    Science   Age   Lines  
  • The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.

    Life   Wise   Simple  
  • The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before.

    Strong   Order   Envy  
  • It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises himself ... and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethe's man ... a spectator of the world ... Third Schopenhauer's man ... voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth.

    Pain   Men   Age  
    "An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism" by Georg Brandes, 1889.
  • Film writing and concert writing are two very different things. In film writing I am serving the film and it tells you what to write. I have to stay within the parameters of the film. In writing concert music for the stage I can write anything I want and in this day and modern age rules can be broken.

    Writing   Two   Broken  
  • Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

    Thinking   Age   Modern  
    Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Invention of Love”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.

  • We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.

    Children   Israel   Egypt  
  • Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.

    Simple   Important   Age  
  • The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.

    People   Age   Realizing  
    Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “The Cycle of Spring”, p.16, Sai ePublications
  • Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.

    Assessment   Age   Fields  
    Jane Smiley (1995). “Moo”, Knopf
  • New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

    Airplane   Mean   Artist  
    Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr
  • The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.

    Life   Past   Men  
    Jeremy Rifkin (1989). “Time Wars: The Primary Conflict in Human History”, Touchstone
  • Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing - he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.

    Lionel Trilling, Leon Wieseltier (2009). “The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays”, p.552, Northwestern University Press
  • You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.

    People   Zombie   Age  
  • The notion of a healthy society, of capable people who are able to enjoy life, arose in the liberal, middle-class, leftist and non-religious segments of society. The euthanasia idea came from neither the radical right-wing nor the conservative corner. It was and remains part of the modern age and progressive thought.

    Religious   Class   Wings  
  • I find the public reaction to writing - it's fascinating in this modern age. Of course people are able to interact with me and email me, and I get quite a few I suppose.

    Writing   People   Age  
    Source: www.identitytheory.com
  • I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age

  • In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.

  • Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

    Age   Modern   Cathedrals  
    David Lodge (1990). “Nice Work”, Penguin Group USA
  • You mean Teletubbies? (Berith) The fact that you know what they’re called, Berith, truly scares me. (Jericho) As a demon of torture, it behooves me to know all things that are deeply annoying. You’d be amazed how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as Teletubbies. (Berith) Not really. I’d rather battle a brain-eating zombie any day than hear them sing. (Jericho)

    Mean   People   Zombie  
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