Modern

Famous quotes containing the word modern:

“Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men’s belief that they “own” their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!”
—C.S. (Clive Staples)

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

“To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)