Modern Quotes

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

I wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.

Most modern comedy is crap.

You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.

Her heart is like poetry a modern poetry only understood by some and accepted by few.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.