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“Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of if there were no other gods?), vindictive, and altogether foul-tempered. If you didn't serve the nasty fellow, the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down.”
“Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.”
Source: Witchcraft and the Gay counterculture: a radical view of Western civilization and some of the people it has tried to destroy
“Modern science agrees that the universe consists of vibrations, but sound is more than vibration. Distinct from white noise, sound is vibrations in harmonic proportions, and from the billions of vibrations that are possible, the universe shows a startling, overwhelming preference for the few thousand that make harmonic sense.This is because the One, from which all things issue, is beautiful.”
“Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for a rational social order based on free association and democratic control, if we have the will to create it.”
Source: For Reasons Of State
“Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.”
“Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.”
“Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.”
Source: Selections and Essays
“Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.”
Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book
“Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.”
“Modern science has since discovered the positive effect of an infusion of salt on the nervous system, and for lactating mammals, but a tiny male moth with a huge appetite for salt also seems to back the notions of the ancient Greeks--- that salt is a key ingredient for successful sex.
The male Gluphisia moth spends most of his short life accumulating enough salt to give his mate a nuptial gift of sodium.
This act is achieved by "puddling," or sucking from pools of standing water or moist ground for several hours at a time and squirting out the liquid in strong jets. The process is nothing if not a test of endurance, with the most virile moths squirting out 4,325 jets, or 600 times their bodyweight.
The moth only takes in sodium, expelling other nutrients like potassium. The act raises the moth's sodium levels to eight times that of the nonpuddling Gluphisia. Ultimately, the former will give half of this sodium to a mate in a reproductive act by incorporating the sodium into spermatophore, a present of nutrients, protein, and sperm that supplies the female with enough sodium to pass on to her larvae.”
Source: The Best American Food Writing 2023: Eye-Opening Essays on Culture, Inequality, and Justice
“Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor.”
“Modern science is a vast attempt to homogenize the universe. Aristotelian science, by contrast, remains faithful to our lived experience, and thus conceives of the world as essentially heterogeneous; composed of different kinds of beings.”
“Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.”
“Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.”
“Modern science is predicated on "truths" verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.”
“Modern science is recognizing that essential oils can have a beneficial effect on multiple systems in the body.”
Source: Essential Oils Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living
“Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.”
“Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.”
“Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.”
“Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.”
“Modern science, then, ignoring the sacred aspect of nature as a condition of its own genesis and development, tries to fill the vacuum it has created by producing mathematical schemes whose only function is to help us to manipulate and ‘dominate’ matter on its own plane, which is that of quantity alone. The physical world, regarded as so much dead stuff, becomes the scene of man’s uncurbed exploitation for purely practical, utilitarian or acquisitive ends. It is treated as a de-incarnate world of phenomena that are without interest except in so far as they subserve statistics or fill test-tubes in order to satisfy the curiosity of the scientific mind, or are materially useful to man considered as a two-legged animal with no destiny beyond his earthly existence.”
Source: The Rape of Man & Nature: An Inquiry Into the Origins and Consequences of Modern Science
“modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.”
Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays
“Modern scientific culture has evolved from its roots in the ancient world and has become a complex web of many highly specialized disciplines. Gone are the days when one man, such as the seventeeth-century Robert Hooke, could be a groundbreaking inventor, microscopist, physicist, surveyor, astronomer, biologist and even artist. Today the sheer enormity of available information has led to highly defined specialisms, and academics are expected to keep to their field - despite the truism that science has no experts. [...]
The gains from modern science are beyond counting. But the loss, arguably, is the synthesis of information generated by the many gentleman scholars that once existed, before becoming extinct somewhere around hte late nineteenth century. So few scholars now have a chance to view the bigger picture - to seek out patterns that might unexpectedly exist when apparently unrelated data is brought together. It has to be remembered that the difference between a major breakthrough and nothing at all can be just the angle of view rather than anything else.”
Source: Who Built the Moon?
“Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.”
“Modern sensual women want ecstasy as a way of life.”
“Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or country ... [It] is an affront to our values and our commitment to human rights.”
“Modern Slavery is the choice to remain ENSLAVED.”
“Modern Slavery is the lack of emancipation from Mental Slavery.”
“Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its profounder message: the defining of a new and unique source of truth, and the demand for a thorough revision of ethical premises, for a complete break with the animist tradition, the definitive abandonment of the 'old covenant', the necessity of forging a new one. Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the riches they owe to science, our societies are still trying to live by and to teach systems of values already blasted at the root by science itself.”
“Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.”
“Modern society doesn’t have a problem with treating the janitor the same as the CEO. We have a problem with our need to show the world that we treat the janitor the same as the CEO.”
“Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst.”
“Modern society - everyone thinks getting cancer is a normal aspect of life.”
Source: Toxic Health
“Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.”
“Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.”
Source: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
“Modern society has sent men on a quest that is perhaps an inquiry just as thought-provoking as the popular question: what is the meaning of life. The question thrown at men by the society is one which many men struggle to answer, and that question is: What does it mean to be a man?”
Source: Alpha360: Book 1: An Evolutional Journey for the Modern Man
“Modern society has subsided into a culture of deceit.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“Modern Society has turned blind; considering patience as cowardliness.”
“Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?”
“Modern society is a biological disaster masquerading as progress.”
“Modern society is based on control of every waking hour, control over personal time, thoughts, actions, and even desires and dreams which often are created through consumer-based media.”
Source: Life Is A Circus
“Modern society is deeply lonely because we are unwittingly controlled by our attachments and relate to each other as objects of craving or aversion rather than living, changing human beings.”
Source: Seeing, Knowing, Being: A Guide to Sacred Awakenings
“Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of the greatest dangers of all is that you have lost all sense of danger, you cannot even see where it's coming from as it moves swiftly towards you.”
“Modern society is modern because of its mental cocktail of reasoning and compassion. Turn the compassion network in the brain off, and it will be a society of heartless robots. On the other hand, turn the reasoning network off, and it will be a society of dumb sentimental apes.”
Source: Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
“Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.”
Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
“Modern society must show courage and willingness to replace common superstitions with common sense.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Modern society seems to be a celebration of all the things that lead away from the Truth, make Truth hard to live for, and discourage people from even believing that it exists.
And to think that all this springs from a civilization that claims to adore life, but actually starves it of any real meaning; that endlessly speaks of making people “happy”, but in fact blocks their way to the source of real joy.”
Source: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition