Quotes about Modern

The fundamental conflict of our time is that between the creaturely life of Nature's world and the increasingly mechanical life of modern humans.

But it may be seriously questioned whether the advent of modern communications media has much enhanced our understanding of the world

Gringos invented two terms that are untranslatable into most languages: "snack" and "quickie," to refer to eating standing up and loving on the run . . . that, too, sometimes standing up.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

in what myth does a man live nowadays? In the Christian myth, the answer might be. "Do you live in it?" I asked myself. To be honest, the answer was no. For me it is not what I live by. "Then do we no longer have any myth?" "No, evidently we no longer have any myth." "But then what is your myth — the myth in which you do live?" At this point the dialogue with myself became uncomfortable, and I stopped thinking. I had reached a dead end.

European man has convinced himself that in order to be modern and free, he must be radically secular. That conviction has had crucial, indeed lethal, consequences or European public life and European culture.

Karol Wojtyla, the disciple who was a product of the Church in the modern world, not of the Roman bureaucracy.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

Beat doesn't mean tired or bushed, so much as it means beato, the Italian for beatific: to be in a state of beatitude, like St. Francis, trying to love all life, trying to be utterly sincere with everyone, practicing endurance, kindness, cultivating joy of heart. How can this be done in our mad modern world of multiplicities and millions? By practicing a little solitude, going off by yourself once in a while to store up that most precious of goals: the vibrations of sincerity.

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.