#modern

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous! ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#away #characters #down #dramatic #driving

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

#challenge #disillusioned #illusions #live #modernity

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs. ↗

— David Guterson

#because #dead #human #human needs #man needs

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes. ↗

— William Hague

#change #changes #i #i think #modern

I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all. ↗

— Julie Harris

#clothes #i #modern #modern clothes #understand

I would loathe to work on modern films. ↗

— Julie Harris

#i #loathe #modern #work #would

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#around #avoid #beyond #descend #get

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#bothers #him #his #knows #less

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#kept #modern #particularly #philosophers #physics

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#entities #establish #exerts #formula #into