“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
“On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.” WayHumansCausesHuman BeingsModernConceptsFormulasReplacedProbabilityModern ScienceDiscarded Book:Dialectic of Enlightenment Source: Dialectic of Enlightenment
“What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject and object, form and substance. Those divisions are just dialectical inventions that came later...They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are within that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic gods they replaced.” MindRealMatterRealityFormModernSubjectsCreationObjectsEssentialsGhostInventionArtisticSubstanceImmortalDivisionBeing RealReplacedRationalityMind And MatterArtistic CreationForm And Substance Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals. They and their offspring could become a master race. Evolution pays no regard to social justice. It was not fair on the Neanderthals they were replaced by modern humans.” ShouldHumansHelpingIndividualSocialJusticePayRaceModernMastersEvolutionFairsIncreaseRegardSocial JusticeEngineeringReplacedOffspringNot FairLife SpanGenetic EngineeringNeanderthals Author:Stephen Hawking
“over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and more extreme, intricate and in a way divorced from life itself. It seems as if what we all need is a great purification - but how will that come about?” IfsWayNeedsSeemsLanguageModernExtremesReplacedDivorcedIntricatePurificationModern Poetry Author:May Sarton
“Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.” MenBelieveSoulStruggleModernHistoricalPossessionHostReplacedCultModern Society Author:Will Herberg
“A few years ago, they [Neandertals] were thought to be ancestral to anatomically modern humans, but now we know that modern humans appeared at least 100,000 years ago, much before the disappearance of the Neandertals. Moreover, in caves in the Middle East, fossils of modern humans have been found dated 120,000-100,000 years ago, as well as Neandertals dated at 60,000 and 70,000 years ago, followed again by modern humans dated at 40,000 years ago. It is unclear whether the two forms repeatedly replaced one another by migration from other regions, or whether they coexisted in some areas” KnowsYearsHumansWellsHas BeensTwoFormFoundModernMiddleAreasYears AgoEastRegionsMiddle EastReplacedCavesFossilsMigrationDisappearanceUnclear Author:Francisco J. Ayala
“Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence” Has BeensModernChildhoodRateBritainAdulthoodReplacedAdolescencePrematureModern Britain Author:Anthony Daniels