“ Modern man thinks he loses something-time-when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains- except kill it. Erich Fromm
“ And therefore the idea of serving mankind, of the brotherhood and oneness of people, is fading more and more in the world, and indeed the idea now even meets with mockery, for how can one drop one's h… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ Modern man has lost the sense of wonderabout the unknown and he treats it asan enemy. Laurens van der Post
“ Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?Maybe the lies are all that we've gotBut aren't they beautiful? Sarah Slean
“ Modern man has too many masks to wear. We must unmask and be ourselves, sincerely, earnestly and live truly as we are, Gyomay M Kubose
“ Shakespeare, in some sense, helped create the modern man, didn't he, his influence is that pervasive. He held the mirror up to nature, but he also created that mirror: so the image he created is the v… Jess Winfield
“ It is this kind of consciousness, exacerbated to an extreme, which has made inevitable the so called "death of God." Cartesian thought began with an attempt to reach God as object by starting from the… Thomas Merton
“ Many works would be senseless, real junk, but for the fact that, being art, they are exhibited because they have a message of almost religious importance, interpreting man and his world - yes, perhaps… H. R. Rookmaaker
“ We live in an unbelieving age but one which is markedly and lopsidedly spiritual. There is one type of modern man who recognizes spirit in himself but who fails to recognize a being outside himself wh… Flannery O'Connor
