Modernity Quotes

“Postmodernism”

“Age of Enlightenment”

“The modern soul is a lunar landscape.”

“Men have become the tools of their tools.”

“The disease of the modern character is specialization.”

“‘Progress’ is just a modern idea, which is to say a false idea.”

“Modernism is the attempt to permeate religion with middle-class reason.”

“… den modernen Schlacht- und Opferruf „Theilung der Arbeit! In Reih' und Glied!””

“To be unaware of the putrefaction of the modern world is a symptom of contagion by it.”

“Wikipedia: Modernity”

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

“Every conquered culture around the world, when given a taste of modernity, grab[s] it with both hands.”

“We—embedded in and raised by modernity—only know one way of living, and it’s a way of ultimate failure.”

“Compared to Homeric or even to medieval times, modern man inhabits the physical world like a rapacious stranger.”

“The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.”

“Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but seeks refuge in a dogma.”

“Through industrialism, humanity set out to accomplish great things.
And we have accomplished great things.
Unfortunately, we have obviated ourselves in the process.”

“Each age has its own characteristic depravity. Ours is perhaps not pleasure or indulgence or sensuality, but rather a dissolute pantheistic contempt for the individual man.”

“Modernism is in essence a provincialism, since it declines to look beyond the horizon of the moment, just as a countryman may view with suspicion whatever lies beyond his country.”

“The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.”