Quotes Tagged With :modernity

Give as much as importance to your goal as you give it to your first girlfriend, with that much importance....

All he really knew was that if he stayed here he would soon be the property of things that buzzed and....

Modernity kills ghostly romance("The Undying Thing")

ITS nomimal without all on transfer of regard, that weight of a measure of lines cannot be equal in comparison.....

I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles....

But once I could look back on it in a calmer frame of mind, it struck me that his motive was surely not....

The construction of civilizational difference is not exclusive in any simple sense. The de-essentialization....

The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions....

Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches....

Darwin and Nietzsche were the common spiritual and intellectual source for the mean-spirited and bellicose....