I still believe in the Holy Trinity, except now it’s Target, Trader Joe’s, and IKEA.Jen LancasterConsumerismHumorModernity Share this
I don’t think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.Mary-Louise ParkerFamilyModernityMotherhood Share this
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.Queen Rania of JordanExclusivityModernityReligion Share this
One cannot spend one’s time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.Wallace StevensModernityPrioritiesTime Share this
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It’s probably the music that belongs most to our time.Michael TippettConnectionEmotionModernity Share this
Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.Michelangelo AntonioniModernityMoralityProgress Share this
Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people.Mihai EminescuLazinessModernityWork Share this
A reminder (Japan’s earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really isGeorge AlagiahDisasterfragilityModernity Share this
The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.Horace WalpoleControversyModernitySociety Share this
There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.Hunter S. ThompsonModernityRationalityStupidity Share this
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.Gilbert K. ChestertonKnowledgeModernity Share this
The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.Herbert ReadIndividualismModernity Share this
The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.Gilbert K. ChestertonModernitySpirituality Share this
We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.Gotthold Ephraim LessingExpectationsHeroismModernity Share this
Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.David ReesInclusivityModernityNecessity Share this
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.Abraham Joshua HeschelHumanityModernitySpirituality Share this
Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.Ai WeiweiFreedomModernity Share this
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.D. H. LawrenceEmotionKnowledgeModernity Share this
That’s the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.Joseph KosinskiExpectationsModernitySurprise Share this
There’s no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn’t exist. That’s a thing of the past.Scarlett JohanssonAuthenticityModernityMystery Share this
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.Anthony BurgessFreedomModernitySolitude Share this
The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man’s existence.Anthony DanielsExistenceModernitySuperficiality Share this
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.Anthony GiddensModernityRisk Share this
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.Antonio GramsciDisillusionmentModernity Share this
To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. Charlie Munger Achievement Deserving Success
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Jean Cocteau Deception Perception Reality
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Jean Cocteau Identity Individuality Rebellion
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Charlie Munger Worry
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Charlie Munger Criticism Past Stupidity
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