Moderns Quotes
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The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
— Alfred North Whitehead
From now on the architects would take over as the high preists of this bourgeois city.
— Colm Toibin
Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age
— Lord Chesterfield
It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.
— Albert Einstein
I just can't help but see things differently.
— Kylie Minogue
In a post-modern culture we need an apologetic that is felt and seen because if post-moderns are not feeling it, they are not believing it.
— Ravi Zacharias
True success is not a project but a journey.
— Myles Munroe
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
(Rush are) like the JD Salinger of Canadian Prog Rock
— Stephen Colbert
But we moderns are impatient and destructive.
— John Crowe Ransom
The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.
— G.K. Chesterton
The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
— Madame De Stael
The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.
— Benjamin Franklin
Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
— Fulton J. Sheen
I work hard because I love my work.
— Bill Gates
People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.
— Heinrich Heine
We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.
— Dean Koontz
In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.
— Peter Kreeft
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
— Robert Frost
The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
— William Penn
The moderns do not realize modernity.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton