Words matter. These are the best Modern Man Quotes from famous people such as Robin Day, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Herzen, Stewart Udall, Vaclav Havel, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think there’s a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I’ve been talking about.
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature… In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.
The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man.
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he’s too busy to enjoy.
A lot of men I have spoken to have said it’s very confusing being a modern man. You want to be sensitive but also strong. You can’t win. It’s really hard trying to be both.
Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into the popular depiction of himself as a witless under-achiever, incapable of looking after himself or those around him.
The well-known inspiration for ‘Ulysses’ is made clear by the title itself: Joyce’s novel is based on Homer’s ‘Odyssey’, under the ever-fascinating premise that all of Odysseus’ extraordinary adventures can be experienced by a modern man in a single day, provided that the writing consists of his mental activity.
I believe I’ve got the best of both worlds – a modern man with old fashioned values. I’m happy to be a house husband but won’t let my wife carry her own bag.
The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
I am actually a perfectly capable modern man who can cook, clean, wash, and find my way to places, but nobody believes it.
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.
Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.
I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don’t know what demons drove him.
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.
A ‘modern’ man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.
That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
I’ve made no pretence to be a modern man at all, ever.
