(307 quotes found)
“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”
Oscar Wilde
“What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.”
Octavio Paz
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
C.S. Lewis
“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
“Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly”
“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.”
Albert Einstein
“The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.”
C. Wright Mills
“The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief”
Jacques Ellul
“Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.”
Salvador Dalí
