Modern

Famous quotes containing the word modern:

“This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

“The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear—and even, in certain respects, would be—the most modern of critical movements.”
—Paul Deman (1919–1983)

“By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)