Modern

Famous quotes containing the word modern:

“The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child’s play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)

“The modern city hardly knows pure darkness or pure silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)