#mode

Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations. "If I can but grasp it, if I can but cognise it", so he thinks, "I can make it my servant. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#science #superstition #age

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#die #dog #good #good reason #like

I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do. ↗

— Kim Smith

#anything #being #doing #i #just

Mini dresses that have an over skirt of tulle makes it traditional and modern at the same time. ↗

— Reem Acra

#makes #mini #modern #over #same

You have to be a model and multifaceted, but there's not a lot of ways for a model to be multifaceted because the actresses took all the covers. ↗

— Kim Alexis

#covers #lot #model #multifaceted #took

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#both #governed #hand #inorganic #maintains

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#effective #impressive #mode #most #most beautiful

Modern art has to be what is called ‘intense.’ it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only one thing at a time, and saying it wrong. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#modern-art #modernity #art

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. ↗

— Bernard Barton

#absolute #absolute necessity #age #below #beneath

I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it. ↗

— Edmund Barton

#conducted #connection #fort #given #i