Modern Age

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or age:

“The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life, in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Can a moment of madness make up for
an age of consent?”
—Basil Bunting (1900–1985)