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One would love nonetheless to know how to be a man, how to be a woman before God, in the mirror of one's own conscience, in the looks of those who surround us. One would wish to find the strength to beautify one's thoughts and to purify one's heart. It is everyone's hope and expectation to live in serenity and to plod along in transparency: the palms of the hands patiently directed towards heaven, at the heart of all this modernity.


Tariq Ramadan


#modernity #love

[This is] the only period in all human history when people were proud of being modern. For though to-day is always to-day and the moment is always modern, we are the only men in all history who fell back upon bragging about the mere fact that to-day is not yesterday. I fear that some in the future will explain it by saying that we had precious little else to brag about. For, whatever the medieval faults, they went with one merit. Medieval people never worried about being medieval; and modern people do worry horribly about being modern.


G.K. Chesterton


#men

Alors que ce mauvais siècle approche de sa fin, le pressentiment se répand que l’idée de faire histoire n’était qu’un prétexte. Le sujet décisif de la modernité, c’est de faire nature.


Peter Sloterdijk


#modernité #nature #nature

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.


Charles Baudelaire


#being #contingent #eternal #fleeting #half

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.


Charles Baudelaire


#being #changing #constantly #contingent #despised

His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and he had neither peasant shrewdness nor aristocratic honour to help him. He was a man of straw, a glib examinee in subjects that require no exact knowledge (he had always done well on Essays and General Papers) and the first hint of a real threat to his bodily life knocked him sprawling.


C.S. Lewis


#modernity #education

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


Antonio Gramsci


#challenge #disillusioned #illusions #live #modernity

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.


Charles Baudelaire


#contingent #eternal #fugitive #half #immutable

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.


Ulrich Beck


#basic #modernity #overcomes #religion #secular






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