best quotations about
Modernity |
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Quotations
 | Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but seeks refuge in a dogma. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 9 likes |
 | To be really medieval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 8 likes |
 | Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things. — Douglas Adams, 1952-2001, British Sci-Fi writer 8 likes |
| The modern mentality is the child of human vanity puffed up by commercial advertising. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 6 likes |
| Whoever says that he “belongs to his time” is only saying that he agrees with the largest number of fools at that moment. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 6 likes |
 | You are born modern, you do not become so. — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 5 likes |
 | Nothing ages faster than the modern. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 5 likes |
 | Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized. — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator 5 likes |
 | Humans, by nature, love new things. — Pliny the Elder, 23-79 μ.X., Roman natural philosopher 5 likes |
 | In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
 | This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art… — Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter 3 likes |
| The word “modern” no longer has an automatic prestige except among fools. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 3 likes |
| The object of modern art does not possess inner life; only internal conflicts. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 3 likes |
 | Wanting to be of one's time is already outdated. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 2 likes |
 | It takes a long time to become young. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
 | When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 2 likes |
 | Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 2 likes |
 | You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 2 likes |
 | Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 2 likes |
 | When a new wind blows, empty heads are the first to bend. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 1 likes |
| The modern world seems invincible. Like the extinct dinosaurs. |
 | Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theater must take an interest in sin, if the young are to be willing to go there. |
| Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change. |
 | Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. |
 | Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. |
 | If it works it’s obsolete. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
| Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | What modern man wants is a monk’s cell, well lit and heated, with a corner from which he may look at the stars. |
| Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man. |
