Top 34 Post Modernism Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Post Modernism

#1. Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

#2. Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

Larry Wall

#3. I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

Billy Corgan

#4. Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

Robert Hewison

#5. One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

Larry Wall

#6. Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate Albert Camus?

John Leonard

#7. Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

John Berger

#8. We have survived the "Death of God" and the "Death of Man". We will surely survive "the Death of History" ... and the death of post-modernism.

Norman Davies

#9. The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change ... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.

Philip K. Dick

#10. There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female.

Gloria Steinem

#11. Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#12. A nation which depends upon others for its new basic scientific knowledge will be slow in its industrial progress and weak in its competitive position in world trade.

Walter Isaacson

#13. The man of the future will be young or he will not be.

Regis Debray

#14. The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#15. We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have never believed in them.

Jean Baudrillard

#16. That was the way with Moldenke, a brightly burning candle with a shortened wick, destined to burn low and give off gas.

David Ohle

#17. Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

J.L. Austin

#18. Still humping the American Dream

Hunter S. Thompson

#19. Life has no meaning a priori ... It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#20. Toward the end of the Second World War, a
new consciousness arose amongst the public
and policy makers of the Western World. After
ten years of crippling economic depression
and another five at war, the public demanded
something new from their disintegrating
urban environments.

Lucas Mascotto-Carbone

#21. The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

Paul Tournier

#22. The only benefit of a Campbell's soup can by Andy Warhol (and it is an immense benefit) is that it releases us from the need to decide between beautiful and ugly, between real and unreal, between transcendence and immanence.

Jean Baudrillard

#23. NIKKI: Really?! What are the ingredients? BRANDON: Just popcorn and caramel candy. Cooks in microwave. NIKKI: That's all?! Very cool! Be right back . . . NIKKI: We have popcorn ! But no caramel candy ! BRANDON:

Rachel Renee Russell

#24. The dominant theories of elite art and criticism in the 20th century grew out of a militant denial of human nature. One legacy is ugly, baffling, and insulting art. The other is pretentious and unintelligible scholarship. And they're surprised that people are staying away in droves?

Steven Pinker

#25. Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post about. Later it's claimed that Tristram Shandy was No. 8 on the Observer's list of the greatest novels, which cheers everyone until they discover the list was chronological.

Roger Ebert

#26. What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?

David F. Wells

#27. Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is sufficiently hard to shatter myths is ultimately self-destructive.

Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer