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
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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
Quote:- Mom has the Touch. She knows what flowers go with what occasions, what hors d'oeuvres work with what people. She believes passionately in the power of food to heal, restore, and stimulate relationships, and she has built a following of loyal customers who really hope she's right. If she's wrong, says Sonia, no one wants to know.
Thwonk
Author:- Joan Bauer
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Mom, your love is a mystery:How can you do it all?Mother is such a simple word,But to me there’s meaning seldom heard.For everything I am today,My mother’s love showed me the way.You are the Thunder and I am LightningAnd I Love the Way You, Know Who You are to meCause Mom You are a fireworkMy Moon in times of darknessMy Sun in times of my happy hoursMy pillow in times of sorrowAnd My strength In Times Of Great DepressionHow Can You Do It All?My World, My Forever What will I Have BeenWithout Such Pure LoveLike The Moon In Someone’s SkyYou Show Me The Way to lifeWith your loving and slivering lightyou shine like and angelAnd I Thank heaven for the grace of having such a motherWhich paths are wise and life is trueYou are my sunshineI’ll love my mother all my days,For enriching my life in so many ways.She set me straight and then set me free,And that’s what the word "mother" means to me.Mom, I wish I had words engraved in the cloudsto tell How much you mean to me.I am the person I am today,Because you let me be.Your unconditional loveMade me happy, strong, and secure.In all the world, there is no motherBetter than my own.You're the best and wisest person, MomI have ever known.Like the stars talks with no wordsyour wisdom Enlightened meAnd Forever the angels will sing hallelujahFor they Woe to have someone like you
Author:- Christen Kuikoua
Category:- Love
Quote:- Moment to moment, day after day,We must hold the contradictory co-existing reality Of who we are, all we have done, Where we have succeeded and where we have failed,and who we believe that we could be.
Author:- Shellen Lubin
Category:- hope