“I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I'm not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper.” ModernPaperGlassesNewspapersContactMetalsIpadsSensuous Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life.” SaidPrayerModernEternalBusyNewspapersDaily LifeReplacedBourgeoisEphemeralAll That Remains Book:Closing of the American Mind Source: Closing of the American Mind
“Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and wireless within reach. For the evening there is the film, cards, or a meeting to complete a day spent in the office or factory where nothing that is essential has been learnt. With slight variation this picture of a low cultural average holds good over the entire range from factory-hand of clerk to manager or director. Only the personal will to culture, in whatever field and however pursued raises modern man above this level.” KnowsMenLittlesHas BeensHandsTodayFilmCultureLevelsModernFieldsDirectorsEssentialsOfficeLowsRaisesTablesMeetingsWesternAverageNewspapersCardsEveningManagersRangeBreakfastFactoriesPursuedVariationClerksWirelessModern ManHemisphereWithin Reach Author:Johan Huizinga
“Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.” WorldTodayAmericaModernEnglandNewspapersReportsMixturesModern WorldAbsorbingIndignationIncredulityScanning Author:Paul Johnson
“But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form in which they are sometimes couched, would be no less a violation of the canons of evangelical literalism than the allegorizing of the Scholastics was.” IfsSometimesWould BeEyeFormModernScriptureNewspapersWitnessNarrativeReportsPoeticImaginativeViolationEvangelicalCanonScholastics Book:Fundamentalism Source: Fundamentalism