#modernity

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

I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries. ↗

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

#modernity #philosophy #ideology

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

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business. ↗

— Vera Wang

#business #decided #dress #find #get

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

When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#alexandria #alphabet #although #burnt #certain

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#argument #comes #go #hand #i

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#enlightenment

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#modernity #post-modern #post-modernism #values #values-in-life