“Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.” MenWorldMeanDoeBookSoulProblemSufferingUniverseNovelModernHeroHealthySickMadFolksTalesFantasticFairyDullCosmosRoutineSanityFairy TaleSaneRealismHarshMadmenSteadinessModern Novel Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I think in the modern world we really need to have movie theaters or places we can go in and rejuvenate ourselves. I think we'll have less problems with our souls and our health. I do that in my life, and I feel healthy and happy. I need those hours in the darkness where I used to spend time as a kid, sitting in a little closet in the darkness, listening to AM radio, having glowing paint that I illuminated, just sitting there, dreaming about anything, not being disturbed for an hour or two, just alone in the dark. I'm still that little boy in my brain.” ThinkingWorldNeedsFeelsLittlesStillsTwoSoulProblemDreamKidsUsedHoursDarkBrainBoysDarknessModernListeningHealthySittingTheaterPaintRadioClosetsEnd TimesModern WorldSpend TimeDisturbedGlowingLittle BoysMovie TheaterHealthy And HappyAlone In The Dark Author:Peter Stormare
“The notion of a healthy society, of capable people who are able to enjoy life, arose in the liberal, middle-class, leftist and non-religious segments of society. The euthanasia idea came from neither the radical right-wing nor the conservative corner. It was and remains part of the modern age and progressive thought.” PeopleIdeasAgeAbleEnjoyReligiousClassModernMiddleHealthyCapableRemainsWingsNotionConservativeCornersRadicalMiddle ClassProgressiveEnjoy LifeRight WingLeftistsEuthanasiaModern AgeNon ReligiousHealthy Society Author:Gotz Aly
“There are three things healthy people most need to do - to be creatively productive, to render service, and to act in accordance with their moral impulses. In all three respects modern society frustrates most people most of the time.” PeopleNeedsThreeMoralModernHealthyImpulseProductiveThree ThingsModern Society Author:E. F. Schumacher
“The concept of freedom in Scripture differs from modern notions. Freedom is not a life lived free of restraints but a life that recognizes healthy limits, those that are concern to produce prosperity and order for the person who observes them.” PersonsOrderModernProduceHealthyLimitsConceptsConcernNotionProsperityScriptureRestraint Author:Max Anders
“By 1975 - and continuing to today - all Americans came to believe that they had a "right" to a safe, clean, healthy environment. When I grew up, no one seriously criticized the steel mills and paper mills for the deadly stench they produced - that was the smell of prosperity. In the modern society, no one would tolerate such conditions in an American city.” BelieveTodayCitiesEnvironmentModernConditionsGrewHealthySafePaperGrew UpCleanProsperitySmellTolerateContinuingSteelMillsModern SocietyAmerican CitiesHealthy Environment Author:Denis Hayes
“I want everyone to know that Russia in general and the Russian leadership, it is something effective and properly functioning. That the country itself, its institutions, leaders are represented by healthy, capable people who are ready for cooperation with our partners in every single area: sports, politics, fight against modern threats. I have nothing but a positive feeling about it.” PeopleKnowsWantCountryFeelingsFightingSportsLeaderModernReadyHealthyCapableAreasInstitutionsThreatPartnersRussiaCooperationPositive Feelings Author:Vladimir Putin
“In retrospect, I think a lot of '80s fashion shoots are the ones that look the most modern. The fitness-based ones that are really minimal. It's clean, healthy, t-shirt, beach hair... it's athleisure.” ThinkingLooksModernFashionHairHealthyCleanBeachShirts80sT ShirtRetrospect Author:Christy Turlington
“Balanced, sensible nutrition: eat food, not too much, mostly plants, a healthy diet ala Michael Pollan, modern physical activity on a daily basis, modest weight loss - translated into a 58% reduction in the occurrence of diabetes. A clear indication of the power of lifestyle over health. The challenge now is the development of the community-based programs that will translate what we learned in the diabetes prevention program and put it to work in every town in America.” ChallengesLossModernHealthyProgramPlantLifestyleSensibleNutritionTranslateModestWeight LossDiabetesHealthy Diet Author:David Katz
“For me upward social mobility is possible through talent and hard work and is a glowing endorsement of the benefits of living in a modern capitalist society. It's not so much evidence of a meritocracy, as evidence of healthy nepotism. Nepotism is at the core of a good group dynamic. A good group dynamic is at the core of rock'n'roll.” ModernTalentHard WorkHealthyEvidenceCapitalistMeritocracyNepotism Author:Alex Kapranos
“Healthy areas that are richest in information are those areas in the wild where we can get all the information that's available to us within our human hearing range. The most valuable information throughout human evolution has been faint sounds. We tend to think in our modern world that if it's loud, if it grabs our attention, it's important. We get a lot of that in advertising. But in nature, it's the faintest sound that's important; it has determined, in the past of our ancestors, perhaps, if they will live or die. Faint sounds are the earliest clues of newly arriving information.” ThinkingWorldImportantPastAttentionModernEvolutionHealthyValuableDeterminedAdvertisingAncestorClueHuman Evolution Author:Gordon Hempton
“Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.” TryingFacesResultsDealsStruggleModernFiguresHealthySexualityMonstersTeenagerTabooRepressionStigmaNavigateModern Society Author:Ezra Miller
“Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.” CitiesModernHealthyBuiltNotesLondonAliensPleasantEfficientHalfwayAmusingPlaces To LiveMiltonBirminghamKeynesBritons Book:Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch