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If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.
When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.
We're always going to be cherry-picking to make religion make sense. Especially in the modern context.
The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.
Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.
I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.
Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.
What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.
Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.
The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.
I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.
The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.
I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.
So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.
Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.
The greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes
Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.
Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.
Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.
If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.
It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.