Quotes About Postmodernity

#1. Postmodernity means the exhilarating freedom to pursue anything, yet mind-boggling uncertainty as to what is worth pursuing and in the name of what one should pursue it.

Zygmunt Bauman

#2. One of the first steps toward an integral postmodernity is the development and establishment of a genuine environmental ethics, or a moral and ethical stance to nonhuman holons.

Ken Wilber

#3. The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.

Thomas C. Oden

#4. Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.

Jean Baudrillard

#5. ... is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change?

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#6. One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story.

Elle Varner

#8. Any serious reading of the Bible means personal involvement in it, not symbol mental agreement with abstract propositions. And involvement is dangerous, because it leaves one open to unforeseen conclusions.

Megan McKenna

#9. It takes Elder about 2.5 seconds to reach my room after I com him.
"What's wrong?" he asks, skidding through the door.
I laugh at the way his eyes search my room, looking for a dragon to slay for his damsel in distress.

Beth Revis

#10. There are no mistakes in life, just learning opportunities.

Robert Kiyosaki

#11. We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.

Candice S. Miller

#12. I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

Wislawa Szymborska

#13. I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because of their affirming focus on the power of love to heal wounds and transform lives.

Susan Wiggs

#14. The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

David Harvey

#15. Postmodern people have been rejecting Christianity for years, thinking that it was indistinguishable from moralism.

Timothy Keller

#16. Spring is sweet, the baby season; summer is the teenage season -- too much energy, too much growth and beauty and heat and late nights, none of them what they are cracked up to be. Fall is the older season, a more seasoned season. The weather surrounds you instead of beating down on you.

Anne Lamott

#17. Don't ruin it by saying something. Now. Go to class.

Rachel Van Dyken

#18. Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

Oscar Wilde

#19. Pursue excellence and ignore success. If you are excellent you will be successful

Deepak Chopra