Quotes about Modern

Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosophy, read Sartre on the side, smoked Gitanes, and cultivated a look of bored contempt. But inwardly, she was seething with unfocused excitement, and looking for someone to worship.

Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.

This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.

How different is the God of the Bible from the God of modern Christendom! The conception of Deity which prevails most widely today, even among those who profess to give heed to the Scriptures, is a miserable caricature, a blasphemous travesty of the Truth. The God of the twentieth century is a helpless, effeminate being who commands the respect of no really thoughtful man.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.

Though realism may be a tempting viewpoint, as we'll see later, what we know about modern physics makes it a difficult one to defend.

Indeed, if it were, it would by definition not be random. In modern times, we have effectively removed the third possibility above by redefining the goal of science: our aim is to formulate a set of laws that enables us to predict events only up to the limit set by the uncertainty principle.