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"The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world. Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental."

Weber, Max on modern and modernism    Share

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"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."

Wilde, Oscar on modern and modernism
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"Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict."

Wilson, Elizabeth on modern and modernism    Share

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"A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor."

Wordsworth, William on modern and modernism    Share

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Quotation Speech Marks "Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

Carroll, Lewis
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