M Quotes
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“Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.”
“Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue.”
“Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.”
“Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.”
“Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.”
Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“Moderation shifts when extremes do.”
“Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.”
Source: A Soft Place to Fall
“Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.”
Source: Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts
“Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.”
“Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.”
Source: Best of Myles (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
“Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.”
“Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.”
“Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“Modern 'public health' initiatives have moved well beyond what could reasonably be classified as public goods. Today, government undertakes all sorts of policies in the name of public health that are aimed at regulating personal behavior.”
“Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets squashed and social realism comes back into play. All of a sudden, Malevich is no longer painting black squares; he's painting peasants in colorful schmattas.”
“Modern acting is method acting, most of it. And there are sort of different schools, so I guess I'm not really from one school or another. I had a number of different teachers but they were all kind of drawing from the same pool, which is - What do you want? What are you doing to get what you want? And, what is in the way? These are basic acting questions. Knowing the answers to those questions. So you're talking about objectives and actions and obstacles. That's a sort of shorthand that gives you a language.”
“Modern Adam doesn't always need Eve in Paradise.”
“Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.”
“Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.”
“Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.”
Source: Holidays in Hell
“Modern Allopathic medicine complicates, disrupts and harms natural energy so people needlessly suffer and die long before their time
Energy used for healing creates...
Order where there was disorder
Ease where there was disease
Life where there was death
This is Syntropy‼️”
“Modern Allopathic medicine complicates, disrupts and harms natural energy so people needlessly suffer and die way before their time
Energy used for healing creates...
Order where there was disorder
Ease where there was disease
Life where there was death
This is Syntropy‼️”
“Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era.”
“Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.”
“Modern American culture dictated the importance of touching the hand of someone you’ve just met, however counterintuitive it seemed. Why would he want to touch someone he didn’t know?”
Source: Jaden Baker
“Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.”
“Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new generations out of the realization that the old formal culture-the "New England idea"-could no longer serve.”
Source: On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature
“Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.”
“Modern American politicians have the same cowardice about denying an equally bloodthirsty even sillier god, Jehovah.
None of us would seriously consider the possibility that all the gods of Homer really exist... I think that all of us would say in regard to those gods that we were atheists. In regard to the Christian God, I should, I think, take exactly the same line.”
“Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.”
“Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.”
“Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.”
“Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.”
Source: The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts
“Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which were best understood and most strongly held by the libertarian wing of the great workers' alliance.”
Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice
“Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.”
“Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow, the assumption that his economic goal is primary, and his other activities are instrumental to it. The planting and the cultivating are no less important than the finished product. Life is not conceived as a linear progression directed to, and justified by, the achievement of a series of goals; it is a cycle in which ends cannot be isolated, one which cannot be dissected into a series of ends and means.”
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky
“Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a great service by developing, over the years, a form of language in which many of the archaisms and cliches that had become fashionable were discarded, a language that could serve as an adequate instrument for the writing of fiction in these times.”
“Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.”
Source: The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture
“Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.”
“Modern architecture has the potential to send you to an early grave.”
“Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude”
“Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.”
“Modern art has to be what is called ‘intense.’ it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only one thing at a time, and saying it wrong.”
Source: Alarms and Discursions
“Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”
“Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval.”
Source: EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston
“Modern art is childish - not childlike, remember, childish; not innocent but stupid, insane, pathological. We have to get rid of this trend. We have to create a new kind of art, a new kind of creativity. We have to bring to the world again what Gurdjieff calls objective art.”
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.”
“Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old…Have you ever seen an inch worm crawl up a leaf or twig, and then clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something to reach? That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have a footing.”
“Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.”
“Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in. All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims – the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within.”