“The air of fashion, which many young people are so eager to attain, always strikes me like the studied attitudes of some modern prints, copied with tasteless servility after the antigue; the soul is left out, and none of the parts are tied together by what may properly be termed character.” PeopleMaySoulCharacterTogetherYoungLeftAttitudeAirModernFashionStrikesPrintTiedLeft OutServility Author:Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“Beauty in this Iron Age must turn, From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn, And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn, On whose gray surface runes are traced by a Norn, Who hopes to wake the Future to arise, In Phoenix-fashion, and to shine with rays, To blast the sight of modern men whose dyes, Of selfishness and lust have stained our days...” MenAgeTurnsModernFashionShapesSightShiningSurfaceLustAriseSelfishnessIronGrayRaysAshesRainbowTornFragmentsFluidBlastPhoenixModern ManRunes Author:Philip Jose Farmer
“To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.” KnowsStatesKnow HowModernFashionContinuity Author:Le Corbusier
“When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.” LooksAsksModernFashionStyleBuildingCivilizationRemainsStructureHistoricalContemporaryCopiesAbsurdityVulgarityAnachronism Author:Louis Sullivan
“By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom it is immediately obvious that their interests coincide with the interests of the state power. All modern finance, the whole of the banking business, is interwoven in the closest fashion with public credit.” StatesWholeInterestModernFashionUnderstoodRegardObviousCreditFinanceFundClosestBankingLoanAristocracyPromotersSpeculators Book:Karl Marx: Selected Writings Source: Karl Marx: Selected Writings
“The capacity to see the big picture is perhaps the most important as an antidote to the variety of psychic woes brought forth by the remarkable prosperity and plentitude of our times. Many of us are crunched for time, deluged by information, and paralyzed by the weight of too many choices. The best prescription for these modern maladies may be to approach one's own life in a contextual, big picture fashion - to distinguish between what really matters and what merely annoys.” MayImportantMatterBigsChoicesModernFashionInformationApproachCapacityWeightProsperityVarietyOur TimeRemarkableAnnoyingWoePsychicsAntidotePrescriptionsBig PictureParalyzedMalady Book:A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future Source: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future