Modernity Is Sickness Quotes

#1. The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. Originality' is the sickness of modernity that wishes to see itself as something new, always new, in order continually to witness its own birth. In doing so, modernity is that fashionable illusion which only speaks to death

Carlos Fuentes

#3. The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

Evan Esar

#4. If we must die, O let us nobly die.

Claude McKay

#5. In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

Andy Warhol

#6. A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.

Will Rogers

#7. The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

Edward Abbey

#9. Own 100 percent of your focus. The most challenging of endurance drills will bring you to a level of optimal mental and physical performance.

Lorii Myers

#10. As for the tank, not only is it unAmerican and probably subversive to eat without watching stereo but also the racket from it would interfere even with a directional mike aimed at us from a distance . . .

Robert A. Heinlein

#11. This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world.
He is the Wise who knows not.
And his footsteps on the road click tic-tac, tic-tac

Cristiane Serruya

#12. I can't do anything about my past, but I can do a lot to cooperate with my destiny. I am re-created in Christ Jesus, born anew, that I might do the good works that he laid out for me and live the good life.

Joyce Meyer

#13. Morality is like the famous fig leaves that Adam and Eve used to cover their genitals after they first sinned. But what morality really covers up is will, which is our true nature.

Shai Tubali

#14. About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time for some tasty hay! Haaaaaaay!

Peter Lerangis

#15. You can't think well while people are around you! Best thoughts visit us in the twilight of solitude!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. Love always costs more than you can afford to pay," he said. "And it's always worth the price.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#17. This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find;
The man who does not hesitate to criticize the other, although he behaves in the same way;

Cristiane Serruya

#18. Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#19. Surround yourself with what matters.

H. L. Balcomb

#20. Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

Annie Dillard