Modern Trivial

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or trivial:

“In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church.... We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)

“The elixir of life, the philosopher’s stone
is yours if you surrender
sterile logic, trivial reason.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)