Modern Man Quotes

Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?Maybe the lies are all that we've gotBut aren't they beautiful?

~ Sarah Slean

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

~ Erich Fromm

Modern man has lost the sense of wonderabout the unknown and he treats it asan enemy.

~ Laurens Van Der Post

Many works would be senseless, real junk, but for the fact that, being art, they are exhibited because they have a message of almost religious importance, interpreting man and his world - yes, perhaps even as junk.

~ H. R. Rookmaaker

Shakespeare, in some sense, helped create the modern man, didn't he, his influence is that pervasive. He held the mirror up to nature, but he also created that mirror: so the image he created is the very one we hold ourselves up to.

~ Jess Winfield

And therefore the idea of serving mankind, of the brotherhood and oneness of people, is fading more and more in the world, and indeed the idea now even meets with mockery, for how can one drop one's habits, where will this slave go now that he is so accustomed to satisfying the innumerable needs he himself has invented? He is isolated, and what does he care about the whole? They have succeeded in amassing more and more things, but have less and less joy.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Modern man has too many masks to wear. We must unmask and be ourselves, sincerely, earnestly and live truly as we are

~ Gyomay M. Kubose