Quotes Tagged With :modernity

The novel is... the anti-form proper to modernity itself (which is to say, of capitalism and its cultural....

Those who like to interpret historical facts symbolically may recognize in this the spirit of a specifically....

When nations grow old the Arts grow coldAnd commerce settles on every tree

The great pagan sadness of modern man is largely due to his premonition of ultimate disaster.

I chase goals, not girls.

One would love nonetheless to know how to be a man, how to be a woman before God, in the mirror of one's....

[To admit that college isn't for everyone] may sound élitist. It may even sound philistine, since the....

Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers,....

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow....