T Quotes
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“The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it - rather like a medieval map with the known world encircled by terra incognito where monsters roam.”
“The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.”
Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost
“The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong, I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying "Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and it suits me" – the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.”
“The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.”
“The modern hero is a person who does something everyone thinks they could do if they were a little stronger, a little faster, a little smarter, or a little more generous. Heroes in ancient times were the link between men and perfect beings, gods. Heroes in modern times are the link between man as he is and man as he could be.”
“The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.”
“The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.”
Source: The murder room
“The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.”
“The modern human has mastered the art of building toxic homes and cities.”
“The modern human has taken a pristine natural environment and has obliterated it with pollution, technology and overpopulation.”
“The modern human has two options: Understand and treat environmental illness, or live life in a sickened state and die prematurely from environmental disease.”
“The modern human lives in a cesspool of man-made electromagnetic radiation.”
“The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--”
Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost
“The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understand, and value nothing it cannot sell . . . The next hard time is just as real to him as the last, and so is the next blessing. The new ignorance is the same as the old, only less aware that ignorance is the same as the old, only less aware that ignorance is what it is. It is less humble, more foolish and frivolous, more dangerous. A man, Old Jack thinks, has no choice but to be ignorant, but he does not have to be a fool. He can know his place, and he can stay in it and be faithful.”
“The modern Indian believes that to be modern is to break away from tradition. This is ironic because modernisation has been our longest-running tradition.”
Source: Nonsense
“The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person.”
Source: Fear of Life: The Wisdom of Failure
“The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the action generation whose motto is do more but feel less.”
“The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.”
“The modern institution of the presidency is the primary political evil Americans face, and the cause of nearly all our woes. It squanders the national wealth and starts unjust wars against foreign peoples that have never done us any harm. It wrecks our families, tramples on our rights, invades our communities, and spies on our bank accounts. It skews the culture toward decadence and trash. It tells lie after lie. Teachers used to tell school kids that anyone can be president. This is like saying anyone can go to Hell. It's not an inspiration; it's a threat.”
“The modern job market is like a game of musical chairs. You need to be the one with a chair when the music stops, or you're out of luck.”
Source: Career's Quest: Proven Strategies for Mastering Success in Your Profession: Networking and Building Professional Relationships
“The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among alternatives were limited and the outcomes uncertain, but almost always there were choices. Despite the variability of these individual decisions, taken cumulatively they produced clear patterns of institutional change”
“The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.”
“The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.”
“The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.”
“The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.”
“The modern man feels alienated, because God has disappeared from the horizon. The modern man feels meaningless, because meaning is possible only when you relate yourself to something higher than you.”
Source: God is Everywhere: You are Divine, Everything is Divine
“The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.”
“The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom.”
“The modern man needs to catch on to the fact that women want to be treated as equals, but only when it suits us. the modern woman's fierce need for independence doesn't mean we want to pay for our half of a meal, or that we don't want a man to hold a door open for us. We still want to be looked after, but on our terms.”
Source: This Man
“The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.”
Source: In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
“The modern man, finding that Humanism and Sex both fail to satisfy, seeks his happiness in Science ... But Science fails too, for it is something more than a knowledge of matter the soul craves.”
“The modern marketer is: an experimenter, a lover of data, a content creator, a justifier of ROI.”
“The modern masters promise very little”
Source: Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus
“The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.”
“The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?”
“The modern media environment is so overrun with bullshit and static and people trying to sell you stupid crap. It makes you want to bite yourself.”
“The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.”
Source: The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
“The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.”
“The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.”
“The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.”
Source: Carnets: 1942-1951
“The modern mind is merely a blank about the philosophy of toleration; and the average agnostic of recent times has really had no notion of what he meant by religious liberty and equality. He took his own ethics as self-evident and enforced them; such as decency or the error of the Adamite heresy. Then he was horribly shocked if he heard of anybody else, Moslem or Christian, taking his ethics as self-evident and enforcing them; such as reverence or the error of the Atheist heresy. And then he wound up by taking all this lop-sided illogical deadlock, of the unconscious meeting the unfamiliar, and called it the liberality of his own mind. Medieval men thought that if a social system was founded on a certain idea it must fight for that idea, whether it was as simple as Islam or as carefully balanced as Catholicism. Modern men really think the same thing, as is clear when communists attack their ideas of property. Only they do not think it so clearly, because they have not really thought out their idea of property.”
Source: St. Francis of Assisi
“The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and it will be dismissed without further examination. But preface your remark with "I think I heard somewhere," or, try but fail to remember the name of some professor who might have said "such-and-such," and it will be immediately accepted as an unshakable fact.”
“The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.”
Source: The Greek way ; The Roman way
“The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top”
Source: The Partly Cloudy Patriot
“The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.”
Source: The Treason of the Intellectuals
“The modern movement of worship is designed to break down barriers between man and God, to remove the veil, as it were, from the fearsome holiness of God, which might cause us to tremble. It is designed to make us feel comfortable.”
“The modern myth that if someone loves you, you can say or do anything to them, is a very destructive belief.”
“The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.”
Source: African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist
“The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.”
“The modern painter…is an excellent couturier”