“Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it. With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. The modern governor, owing to the fact that he addresses crowds, is compelled to be a moralist, and to present his acts as bound up with a system of morality.” StatesFactsLeaderMoralModernHonorMoralityNotionBoundsCrowdsAddressesGovernorsRealismCompelledOwingMoralist Author:Julien Benda
“Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds its satisfaction in itself, apart from any attention to the advantages it may procure. Most thinkers would have agreed with Renan's verdict that the man who loves science for its fruits commits the worst of blasphemies against that divinity. The modern clercs have violently torn up this charter. They proclaim the intellectual functions are only respectable to the extent that they are bound up with the pursuit of concrete advantage.” MenMayAttentionAttitudeModernWorstHe ManActivityIntellectualAdvantageFunctionFruitBoundsSatisfactionPursuitCommitGreekDivinityThinkerAestheticConcreteTornRespectableGlorifyBlasphemyCharterVerdictScience Love Author:Julien Benda
“it may be said that children are but newly-issued editions of old compositions, re-bound and corrected, with fresh introductions, modern print and headpieces, but the text is that of former editions handed down from generation to generation.” MayChildrenSaidGenerationsModernBoundsFormerPrintCompositionIntroduction Author:Anna Kingsford
“A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.” WayBodyFilmCertainModernExamplePeriodsBoundsTraditionalGesturesWardrobe Author:Donnie Yen
“The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.” MayCoursesNaturalProgressModernLimitsExpectationsBoundsSuspicionSuggestionsNatural ScienceModern Times Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic aspects, without including life, consciousness and the intimate communion with that which poets, musicians and artists bring us in their magnificent works.” StillsRealitySpiritArtistConsciousnessModernPoetMaterialsDegreesMusicianAspectEnvironmentalBoundsIncludingIntimateMagnificentCommunionMechanicStewardship Author:Leonardo Boff