“Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.” IdeasModernIndiaConstitutionModernityModern India Author:Pranab Mukherjee
“I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism” YearsMotherValuesBreakModernHumilityEnlightenmentMethodBillionsPostsFragileAutismEleganceModernityMother NatureRobustEruditionTripletNerdiness Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism is one of the many vitally present and contemporary other-than-modern ways of being human.” WayHumansDoeModernContemporaryPrimitiveBeing HumanModernityPrecursorAnimism Book:Animism Source: Animism
“If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.” IfsOrderSpeakVoiceAtheismModernIslamPositive AtheismSpheresModernityRestorationBe EncouragedNettles Author:Salman Rushdie
“The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. And surely even modernity is a poor thing beside immortality. Since we must all die, is it not perhaps better to be a dead lion than a living dog?” PastDiesSinPoorModernDogImmortalityLionsModernity Book:Modes and Morals Source: Modes and Morals
“The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the organized efforts of ordinary men. Science is as old as the race, but the effective organization of science is new. Ancient science, like placer mining, was a pursuit of solitary prospectors. Nuggets of truth were found, but the total wealth of knowledge increased slowly. Modern man began to transform this world when he began to mine the hidden veins of knowledge systematically.” MenWorldFaithFoundWaitingWealthEffortRaceProgressModernThis WorldMinesGeniusOrdinaryEssenceOrganizationAncientPursuitOrganizedSolitaryVeinsModernityMiningOrdinary ManModern ManNuggetsWealth Of Knowledge Author:William Wickenden
“Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the 17th century, until which time the world was, in the above respects, far less different from the world of any previous epoch of recorded history than it is from the world of today. The modern predicament is the set of problems these changes have bequeathed us.” WorldDifferentProblemTodayPoliticalSocialEconomicModernCenturyIntellectualAestheticTechnologicalModernityAlteredEpochEnsemblePredicaments17th Century Author:George Scialabba
“The scientific and societal achievements of the modern age are undisputable. But after the French Revolution, modernity increasingly emancipated itself from Christian roots, thereby becoming rootless itself.” AgeChristianModernRevolutionBecomingAchievementRootsModernityFrench RevolutionModern Age Author:Walter Kasper
“Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a decisive value in itself.” MayValuesModernDefinitionsModernityEpoch Author:Gianni Vattimo
“I consider it as a foreshadowing of modernity in many different respects, and the consistency of character is interesting to the emerging modern psychology. The emphasis on dream knowledge relates quite deeply to psychoanalysis, although I suppose psychoanalysis wouldn't like to say that... Freud was always saying he was a scientist.” DifferentCharacterDreamInterestingPsychologyModernScientistRelateConsistencyEmphasisEmergingModernityPsychoanalysisForeshadowingModern Psychology Author:Marina Warner