“ It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence. Criss Jami
“ Give as much as importance to your goal as you give it to your first girlfriend, with that much importance your girlfriend might still leave you but your goal will definitely come to you. Amit Kalantri
“ Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society. Criss Jami
“ His concept of allochrony - initially introduced shyly as 'untimeliness', then later radicalized to an exit from modernity - is based on the idea, as suggestive as it is fantastic, that antiquity has… Peter Sloterdijk
“ Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In theory, emancipation was one of the glories of our democracy - and it w… Shelby Foote
“ Alecto, have you noticed how downhill this little island is becoming? Mandy questioned sadly. All these organic food stores and yoga studios and cellular phone towers… Cape Breton was one of the only… Rebecca McNutt
“ When we pick up the newspaper at breakfast, we expect - we even demand - that it brings us momentous events since the night before...We expect our two-week vacations to be romantic, exotic, cheap, and… Daniel J. Boorstin
“ I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade. Sara Sheridan
“ The people's need to share has turned into a massive disease. It has taken them to the most private meaningless part of their lives. In such circumstance, values become redefined and what has been wor… Kambiz Shabankare
“ My classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college? Amit Kalantri
“ I attended a symposium, an event named after a fifth century (B.C.) Athenian drinking party in which nonnerds talked about love; alas, there was no drinking, and mercifully, nobody talked about love. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Hitting "like" on a social media platform is the modern day version of clapping at the end of a performance. J.R. Rim
“ We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. ... That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elements have ch… Wallace Stegner
“ My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Every little thing makes a difference, whether you decide it yourself or whether it’s pure accident. So many people have had the whole course of their lives changed by something perfectly simple like,… Paul Bowles
“ The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility. Oscar Wilde
