“Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into DDT, killing beetles and worms, resulting in food contamination, much sickness, and trouble. Although he is regarded as hero by modern medicine, Pasteur will be treated in much the same way as a warmonger when he is judged in the spiritual world.” WorldWayIdeasSpiritualTroubleModernHeroMedicineKillingTreatedSicknessDestroyingJudgedWormsGermsPersonal ThingsBeetlesContaminationWarmongersModern MedicinePasteurDdt Author:Michio Kushi
“Die Hard represents the class of modern action pictures and the standard by which they must be judged. Few films falling into the "mindless entertainment" genre have as much going for them as this movie. Not only is it a thrill-a-minute ride, but it has one of the best film villains in recent memory, a hero everyone can relate to, dialogue that crackles with wit, and a lot of very impressive pyrotechnics.” HardActionFilmDiesFallMemoriesClassModernMinutesHeroStandardsEntertainmentWitDialogueRelateGenreJudgedVillainThrillImpressiveMindlessBest FilmVery ImpressivePyrotechnics Author:James Berardinelli
“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
“Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.” GivingRealModernHeroGiving UpSmokingCigaretteModern LifeReal Heroes Author:Hal Boyle
“I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a posh restaurant and the hero hands the waiter $3. But the best part is when he says, "Keep the change."” HandsNightWatchesModernTelevisionCoupleHeroLateDinnerGet UpRestaurantsModern LifeChampagneWaiterLate NightOld MoviePosh Author:Robert Orben
“The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.” FirstsMusicModernCenturyStrengthHeroFirst TimeCombinationPurityAdolescenceTypicalTwentieth CenturySpontaneityModern TimesWagnerPhysical StrengthJoie De Vivre Book:Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life
“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.” KnowsMenModernHeroTragedyBotherHeroicIdolatryModern Man Author:Vaclav Havel
“Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.” MenLooksImpossibleModernHeroOver ItHeroicAbsurdityLowestSpiralsModern ManLowest Point Author:Vaclav Havel
“I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories, to characterize the heroes and the heroines much more than they are characterized in Grimm. I like the psychological flatness of them, the fact that they're more like masks than individuals.” DoneFactsStoriesWantedIndividualNovelModernHeroTalesPsychologicalFairyMaskShort StoryFairy TaleHeroinesGrimmFlatness Author:Philip Pullman
“In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.” MenStarsSawsBloodModernHeroMen And WomenAncientFleshEpicConstellationsFlesh And BloodModern Times Author:Richard M. Nixon
“I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.” ThinkingWayWellsWantedArtistHappenedModernMovementHeroPaintFolksRejectedVansMy HeroMatisse Author:Joni Mitchell