Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
