#modernit

Anymore, no one's mind is their own. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life #modernity #originality #life

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us. ↗

— St. Anthony the Great

#christian #coptic #modernity #orthodox #saint

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading. ↗

— Leszek Kołakowski

#doubt #irony #modernity #philosophy #self-criticism

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

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

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