Modern World or The Modern World may refer to:
- Modernity, a popular academic term.
- The modern era, the age in which people today now live.
- Modern World, a song by Wolf Parade from their 2005 album Apologies to the Queen Mary
Famous quotes containing the words modern world, modern and/or world:
“I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.”
—Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944)
“It is obvious that rationality has been utterly lost in modern marriage: which is no objection to marriage, however, but rather to modernity.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, and we are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see; the world is full.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)