Best modern & roots Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.”

“Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality and despair, have not prompted modern intellectuals to question or revise their dogma. They still think that it is daring, idealistic and unconventional to denounce the rich. They still believe that money is the root of all evil-except government money, which is the solution to all problems.”

“[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly mediocre, and even less than mediocre. That is to say, modern science, the root and symbol of our actual civilization, finds a place for the intellectually commonplace man and allows him to work therein with success.”

Men Facts Modern Civilization Roots Extraordinary Thanks Symbols Mediocre Commonplace Modern Science Experimental Science

Book:the Revolt of the Masses

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

“The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced.”

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Book:Philosophy: Who Needs It

Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It

“Pure love is the best medicine for the modern world. This is what is lacking in all societies. The root cause of all problems, from personal problems to global problems is the absence of love. Love is the binding factor, the unifying factor. Love creates the feeling of oneness among people. It unifies a nation and its people. Love creates a sense of unity while hatred causes division. Egotism and hatred cuts people's minds into pieces. Love should rule. There is no problem which love cannot solve.”

Source: Awaken Children Vol. 4

“Kun-Yang Lin is a young Taiwanese choreographer with strong American modern dance roots. (His) New York debut at the Cunningham studio were notable for their craft and sturdy spirituality.”

Young Spirituality Strong Modern New York Roots Studios Crafts Notable Debut Choreographers Sturdy Yang Modern Dance Cunninghams

Author:Jennifer Dunning

“It becomes evident that when the Life-power awakens its mysterious activity at the beginning of a cycle of manifestation those vibrations which we recognise as sound come into existence before the more rapid pulsations of electricity and light. Thus modern science confirms the ancient occult teaching that sound is the root of physical existence. 'It is out of Sound that every form comes, and it is in Sound that every form lives.”

Light Form Sound Existence Teaching Modern Activity Roots Ancient Mysterious Manifestation Cycles Electricity Evident Rapids Vibrations Recognise Occult Modern Science

Author:Paul Foster Case

“Divorce is one of the loneliest of modern rituals. Before, during, and after the actual culmination of the legal process it is an ordeal that rips people away from their roots, their important relationships, and a part of themselves. There is really nothing like it - except perhaps war.”

People Important War Process Modern Roots Divorce Ritual Rip Ordeals Culmination Important Relationships

Book:Lonely in America

Source: Lonely in America

“The American civil space program is growing to maturity. It has passed through the joys and crises of precocious childhood and now is being called upon to do grown-up things, like earn a living and establish permanent roots in space.”

Joy Space Growing Modern Childhood Program Roots Crisis Permanent Maturity Modern Life Space Program Precocious

Author:John Noble Wilford

“What's holding me up is I'm confused about the nature of the music. Because the modern music doesn't reach me. I mean to say the sound of the modern electric production. A lot of sequencers... synths. That's what people are buying. Because that doesn't reach me, it throws me back to like 1948, but I don't want to be there. Back there, I'm talking about blues records... The roots of rock'n'roll is rhythm and blues and that's like really where I'm at, where I was always at.”

People Want Mean Sound Talking Records Modern Rocks Music Is Roots Productions Rhythm Confused Buying Rock N Roll Electric Rhythm And Blues Modern Music I'm Confused

Author:Joe Strummer

“The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of the Enlightenment can be found in habits of mind cultivated in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, and the institutions that grew from them.”

Mind Found Modern Century Grew Habit Enlightenment Roots Institutions West Rome Jerusalem Athens Habits Of Mind

Book:Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy

Source: Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy

“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.”

Age Christian Modern Revolution Becoming Achievement Roots Modernity French Revolution Modern Age

Author:Walter Kasper

“If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.”

Ifs Modern Roots Don't Trust Modern Music

Author:Angelique Kidjo

“Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.”

World Facts Past Lying Humanity Natural Cutting Modern Roots Our Past Alienation Natural World Adrift

Book:Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century

Source: Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century

“What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure, that there is an outcome-a suitable outcome to evolution. Half our present uneasiness would be turned to happiness if we could once make up our minds to accept the facts and place the essence and the measure of our modern cosmogonies within a noogenesis.”

Ifs World Mind Facts Would Be Half Accepting Seeing Modern Evolution Roots Essence Outcomes Modern World Suitable Uneasiness

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.”

Wells May Soul Running Values Turns Social Challenges Modern Concern Roots Caring Contrary Accepted Radical Norm Social Life Deep Roots

Author:Thomas More

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