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modern man
«I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.»
Author: Alexander Herzen
| Keywords:
feebleness, horrified, horrify, horrifying, modern man, narrowness, outlook
«Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe but seeks refuge in dogma.»
«Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.»
Author: Octavio Paz
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Chambers, endlessly, mazes, mirrors, modern man, nightmare, repeated, The Maze, torture, wide-awake
«The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
bothers, modern, modern man, of his own, tragedy
«Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
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absurdity, descend, get around, jump, lowest, modern man, obviously, spiral, spiraling, spirals
«Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Justice,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
codification, dominant, groups, Law and Justice, modern man, origin
«A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
fornicate, fornicated, fornicates, modern, modern man, papers, sentence, suffice, sufficed, suffices, sufficing
«I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
fornicate, fornicated, fornicates, Historians, modern, modern man, papers, sentence, suffice, sufficed, suffices, sufficing
«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.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
gains, loses, modern, moderns, modern man, quickly
«Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Living
| Keywords:
actually, illusion, modern, moderns, modern man, supposed