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“But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.”

Source: Kora in Hell: Improvisations

“Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much. I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming. The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us.”

“The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and commercial activities, is not what the controllers of that credit call "interesting." He borrows with difficulty and upon high terms, and must pledge security out of all proportion to that which his richer rival has to put down.”

Men Wells Politics Term Interesting Economy Issues Modern Security Activity Difficulty Credit Proportion Liberalism Banking Rivals Pledge Banking System Controllers

Book:The Crisis Of Civilization

Source: The Crisis Of Civilization

“The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus.”

Source: The decline and fall of science

“If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will be secured only when parents are able to make a living for their families with so little difficulty that they may give their best thought and energy to the child's development and the problem of helping it adjust itself to the complexities of the modern environment.”

Ifs Giving May Children Littles Helping Problem Able Energy Parent Responsibility Poverty Environment Rights Modern Development Difficulty Complexity Upbringing Secured

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.”

Men World Should Two Three Names Successful Modern Difficulty Be A Man Modern Life Surgeons

Author:Denton Cooley

“Modern minds no longer object to the Church because of the way they think, but because of the way they live. They no longer have difficulties with the Creed, but with her Commandments. The heresy of our day is not the heresy of thought, but of action.”

Thinking Way Mind Action Church Modern Objects Difficulty Creeds Commandments Heresy

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.”

Way Wells Children Lying Purpose Modern Findings Difficulty Modern Life Dilemma

Book:A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling

Source: A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling

“Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.”

People Class Modern Difficulty British Brilliant Superiors Hypocrisy Fertile Sad But True Places To Live Being Sad Modern English

Author:Pete Townshend

“The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.”

World Ideas Modern Difficulty Incredibles Old Fashioned Modern World

Book:The essence of Alan Watts

Source: The essence of Alan Watts

“Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.”

Men World Feelings Spiritual Spirituality Belief Natural Modern Dangerous Loneliness Illusion Weakness Difficulty Separation Emptiness Natural World Feeling Lonely Modern Man

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility... Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man. It risks being vain and sterile.”

Source: On evangelization in the modern world

“Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.”

Thinking Littles Modern Garden Difficulty Traditional Sparta

Author:Ian Hamilton Finlay