Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity. Wealth of Words
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Quote:- Mma Ramotswe had listened to a World Service broadcast on her radio one day which had simply taken her breath away. It was about philosophers who called themselves existentialists and who, as far as Mma Ramotswe could ascertain, lived in France. These French people said that you should just live in a way which made you feel real, and that the real thing to do was the right thing too. Mma Ramotswe had listened in astonishment. You did not have to go to France to meet existentialists, she reflected; there were many existentialists right here in Botswana. Note Mokoti, for example. She had been married to an existentialist herself, without even knowing it. Note, that selfish man who never once put himself out for another--not even for his wife--would have approved of existentialists, and they of him. It was very existentialist, perhaps, to go out to bars every night while your pregnant wife stayed at home, and even more existentialist to go off with girls--young existentialist girls--you met in bars. It was a good life being an existentialist, although not too good for all the other, nonexistentialist people around one.
Morality for Beautiful Girls
Author:- Alexander McCall Smith
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.
Warbreaker
Author:- Brandon Sanderson
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Modeling is the culmination of lighting, texture, body movement, and your soul's expression.
Author:- Adrienne Posey
Category:- best
Quote:- Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.
The Communist Manifesto
Author:- Karl Marx
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Modern humanity with some 5,000 years of recorded history has been experiencing growing pains, with no end in sight. It is high time for humanity to grow up and to transcend itself by embracing transhumanism.
The Transhumanism Handbook
Author:- Newton Lee
Category:- science
Quote:- Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fact we seem to be losing the feeling of reverence towards nature. It is probably inevitable when science and machinery, capitalism and materialism go hand in hand so far in a most remarkably successful manner. Mysticism, which is the life of religion in whatever sense we understand it, has come to be relegated altogether in the background. Without a certain amount of mysticism there is no appreciation for the feeling of reverence, and, along with it, for the spiritual significance of humility. Science and scientific technique have done a great deal for humanity; but as far as our spiritual welfare is concerned we have not made any advances over that attained by our forefathers. In fact we are suffering at present the worst kind of unrest all over the world.
The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk
Author:- D.T. Suzuki
Category:- science
Quote:- Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but seeks refuge in a dogma.
Escolios a un texto implicito: Obra completa
Author:- Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Category:- hope
Quote:- Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains—except kill it.
The Art of Loving
Author:- Erich Fromm
Category:- time
Quote:- Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
Author:- W.S. Merwin
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Modern science has caused more harm to nature & humanity as it lacks conventional wisdom
The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
Author:- Sandeep Sahajpal
Category:- science
Quote:- Modern scientific culture has evolved from its roots in the ancient world and has become a complex web of many highly specialized disciplines. Gone are the days when one man, such as the seventeeth-century Robert Hooke, could be a groundbreaking inventor, microscopist, physicist, surveyor, astronomer, biologist and even artist. Today the sheer enormity of available information has led to highly defined specialisms, and academics are expected to keep to their field - despite the truism that science has no experts. [...] The gains from modern science are beyond counting. But the loss, arguably, is the synthesis of information generated by the many gentleman scholars that once existed, before becoming extinct somewhere around hte late nineteenth century. So few scholars now have a chance to view the bigger picture - to seek out patterns that might unexpectedly exist when apparently unrelated data is brought together. It has to be remembered that the difference between a major breakthrough and nothing at all can be just the angle of view rather than anything else.
Who Built the Moon?
Author:- Christopher Knight & Alan Butler
Category:- science
Quote:- Modernism, philosophically speaking, is in a sense the ‘‘worship’’ of time and the transient, a kind of deification of time and becoming and all that flows in the temporal order. That is why it resulted quickly in historicism and evolutionism and the theories all of those 19th-century philosophers such as Hegel and Marx and scientists such as Darwin. Such people are very different from one point of view, but they all in a sense divinize history even if Marx rejected the category of ‘‘divine.’’ The historical process is the reality that is domi- nant in modern thought. It is that which determines values and even real- ity today in the dominant Western paradigm.
در جستوجوی امر قدسي
Author:- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Category:- time
Quote:- Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.
Reason in the Balance: The Case Against NATURALISM in Science, Law & Education
Author:- Phillip E. Johnson
Category:- science
Quote:- Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.
Troilus and Cressida
Author:- William Shakespeare
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Mogelijk als wij zo wat oudachtig worden, wil dat zo goed niet meer. Alles, zegt de wijze man, heeft zijn tijd. En 't is ook zo; ik ondervind het zelf wel.
Author:- Betje Wolff en Aagje Deken
Category:- time
Quote:- Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 gms, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world.
Evolution: A Theory In Crisis
Author:- Michael Denton
Category:- science
Quote:- Molecular machines display a key signature or hallmark of design, namely, irreducible complexity. In all irreducibly complex systems in which the cause of the system is known by experience or observation, intelligent design or engineering played a role in the origin of the system... We find such systems within living organisms.
Author:- Scott A. Minnich
Category:- science
Quote:- Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.
The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want
Author:- Deepak Chopra
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!""Nah," Martin said. "She was just being that way for you. She thought it was what you needed to hear. If parents told us what they really think about stuff, we could figure them out like regular people.
The Sky Inside
Author:- Clare B. Dunkle
Category:- Relationships