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Nicolas Gomez DavilaModern 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.

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

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Oscar WildeTo be really medieval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

—  Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer

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Douglas AdamsAnything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

—  Douglas Adams, 1952-2001, British Sci-Fi writer

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Nicolas Gomez DavilaThe modern mentality is the child of human vanity puffed up by commercial advertising.

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

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Nicolas Gomez DavilaWhoever says that he “belongs to his time” is only saying that he agrees with the largest number of fools at that moment.

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

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Jean BaudrillardYou are born modern, you do not become so.

—  Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual

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Paul ValeryNothing ages faster than the modern.

—  Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet

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Pliny the ElderHumans, by nature, love new things.

—  Pliny the Elder, 23-79 μ.X., Roman natural philosopher

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Eric HofferIn a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

—  Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher

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Salvador DaliThis grandiose tragedy that we call modern art…

—  Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter

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Nicolas Gomez DavilaThe word “modern” no longer has an automatic prestige except among fools.

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

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Nicolas Gomez DavilaThe object of modern art does not possess inner life; only internal conflicts.

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

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Eugene IonescoWanting to be of one's time is already outdated.

—  Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright

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Pablo PicassoIt takes a long time to become young.

—  Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter

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Jean CocteauWhen a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

—  Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist

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Alfred North WhiteheadEducation which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

—  Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician

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Andy WarholYou'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

—  Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist

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Karl LagerfeldFashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

—  Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer

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Nicolas Gomez DavilaThe modern world seems invincible. Like the extinct dinosaurs.

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

Bertolt BrechtSin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theater must take an interest in sin, if the young are to be willing to go there.

—  Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer

Bertolt BrechtReality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

—  Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer

Coco ChanelFashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

—  Coco Chanel, 1883-1971, French fashion designer

Theodore AdornoModernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

—  Theodore Adorno, 1903-1969, German philosopher

Marshall McLuhanIf it works it’s obsolete.

—  Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist

Marshall McLuhanAdvertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

—  Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist

Nicolas Gomez DavilaRather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

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Adolf HitlerAnyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

—  Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator

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