“To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.” ScienceModernOriginalsBraveIncludingAdmirationEngineeringEngineersBuilderEiffel Author:Thomas A. Edison
“In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought.” WorldProcessAttitudeModernEthicsTragedyOriginalsPartingIrresistibleAffirmativeUniting Book:Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography Source: Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography
“Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature as a correspondence, that is, a coming into congruence of pre-existing images of the human psyche with external objects and their behaviour. Modern man, of course, unlike Plato , looks on the pre-existent original images also as not invariable, but as relative to the development of a conscious point of view, so that the word "dialectic" which Plato is fond of using may be applied to the process of development of human knowledge.” MenHumansLooksMayCoursesProcessUnderstandingViewsModernMiddlePositionObjectsDevelopmentConsciousOriginalsSeekingFollowingPoint Of ViewImpressionRelativeBehaviourPlatoEvaluationModern ManCorrespondenceHuman KnowledgeDialecticsHuman PsycheCongruenceUnderstanding Nature Author:Wolfgang Pauli
“Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.” SinPlansTreeModernGardenOriginalsArchitectureGrassParksWildernessConcreteOccasionalPatchesCardinalsDevelopersModern ArchitectureLandscaping Book:Broken Homes Source: Broken Homes
“While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations, such as automobiles or airplanes or transatlantic cables or Protestantism or the theory that the earth is round and not flat.” MayArtEarthFormOpinionModernTheoryInnovationOriginalsMajorityRoundsRadicalFlatsAirplaneHostileCablesAutomobileModernismModern ArtProtestantismMajority Opinion Author:Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
“I think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of a mule cart. All the original engineering is still there, underneath it all.” ThinkingStillsModernCarBuiltHorseOriginalsAbandonedEngineeringFrameworkCartsCarriagesMulesModern Marriage Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).” ArtPoetryArtistOrderNaturalModernTalentPoetOriginalsRealmsArtificialAspireExploits Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today.” TodayLiteratureInterestInfluenceModernOriginalsMythThinkerSurveysModern Literature Author:Charles Simic
“Most conservatives know better than to promote the state funding of art. The result of such funding is the mess that modern art has become. Atonal music is to music what subsidized art is to art. ...The fact that cacophony has reigned almost supreme since 1900 is a testimony to Mises' original observation. Atonal music is to music what socialism is to economics: planned chaos.” KnowsArtStatesFactsResultsModernMusic IsArt IsEconomicsOriginalsChaosSupremeSocialismObservationMessTestimonyFundingModern ArtCacophony Author:Gary North
“That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.” MenChristianityPsychologyImpossibleModernOriginalsMissionsSignificanceFulfilledModern Man Book:Stories and Biographies from Iqbal Source: Stories and Biographies from Iqbal
“The Pink Panther is legendary, but a lot of people my age haven't ever seen the original. So, I think it's great to bring it back for my generation, and to expose them to where that theme song which still sounds so modern and that legendary image of a pink cat came from. It's great to be a part of that, because it's history.” PeopleThinkingStillsAgeSongSoundGenerationsModernHavensCatOriginalsThemeMy GenerationLegendaryPanthersPink Panther Author:Beyonce Knowles