“In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.” MenWellsMightCultureLaughingModernStageHe ManConflictCriticismFavorsCriticize Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the gospel” CultureForceEnemyModernSubservientModern Culture Author:John Gresham Machen
“Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.” IfsCultureCausesRealizingPlansModernHappeningsTragedyStrategyWarningAdoptedModern Culture Author:William McDonough
“Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.” YoungCultureModernPerpetualFountainFootballerModern CultureStags Author:Frank Skinner
“Even time is a concept. In reality we are always in the eternal present. The past is just a memory, the future just an image or thought. All our stories about past and future are only ideas, arising in the moment. Our modern culture is so tyrannized by goals, plans, and improvement schemes that we constantly live for the future. But as Aldous Huxley reminded us in his writings, "An idolatrous religion is one in which time is substituted for eternity...the idea of endless progress is the devil's work, even today demanding human sacrifice on an enormous scale.” WritingHumansIdeasMomentsStoriesRealityTodayPastCultureGoalMemoriesProgressPlansSacrificeModernEternalDevilConceptsEternityImprovementScalesEndlessEnormousSchemesHuxleyModern CultureLive Futures Author:Jack Kornfield
“As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent to do some repetitive job, but not intelligent enough to make their own terms with society." Those "intelligent enough" to make their own terms with society are what we will later refer to as artists of life. The outsider views himself as a product of a culture he rejects-the artist views himself as a culture-builder.” PeopleEnoughJobsArtistCultureTermViewsWrittenModernProductsIntelligentRejectsOutsidersCivilisationBuilderWilsonRigidityRepetitive Book:Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design Source: Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design
“As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.” FeelsArtistCultureSoundWatchesModernConnectedSongwritersModern Culture Author:John Feldmann
“A great unification is now taking place between science and spirituality. The most advanced discoveries of modern science are rising to reaffirm the timeless wisdom of the great religious and spiritual traditions of every culture.” SpiritualCultureSpiritualityReligiousModernDiscoveryTraditionRisingTimelessModern ScienceUnificationGreat Religious Author:John Hagelin
“What inspires me is the power of human potential... the human potential to evolve in our lives, and for profound healing. It's always been there but it's become somewhat obscure to us given the stressful, fast-paced modern culture in which we live. I'm also inspired by how miraculous some of the simplest and most natural aspects of life can be the greatest sources of healing and transformation.” HumansCultureGivenNaturalHealingOur LivesModernInspireSourceAspectTransformationProfoundInspiredEvolveObscureSimplestMiraculousStressfulFast PacedHuman PotentialAspects Of LifeModern Culture Author:Brad Willis
“The romantics were reacting against a modern culture that divided individuals from themselves (through specialisation in the division of labor), from others (the competitive market place) and from nature, which had been reduced down to a machine through technology. The antidote to such division is unity and wholeness, which means feeling at home again in the world.” WorldMeanFeelingsHomeCultureIndividualTechnologyModernLaborMachinesUnityDivisionDividedWholenessAntidoteReactingModern CultureDivision Of Labor Author:Frederick C. Beiser
“I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred years, and to argue that this "exceptional figure" serves a conservative function in modern culture that bears closer interrogation than it has commonly received.” WritingYearsLittlesBookWantedCultureModernFiguresChangedBearsHundredFunctionConservativeArguingMurdererExceptionalInterrogationModern Culture Author:Richard Marshall