Modernity quotes

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◆ The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

- Edmond And Jules De Goncourt100

◆ Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

- Paul De Man99

◆ Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

- Salvador Dali99

◆ I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

- Alexander Herzen99

◆ In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

- Guy Debord99

◆ Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

- Robert Hewison99

◆ Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

- Garrison Keillor99

◆ It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

- Edgar Z Friedenberg99

◆ The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

- Antonio Gramsci99

◆ Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

- Robert Bork99

◆ Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

- Charles Baudelaire99

◆ Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

- Charles Baudelaire99

◆ A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

- Elias Canetti99

◆ It is only the modern that ever becomes old fashioned.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

- Jean Baudrillard99