The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Homegrown terrorists are a real problem for even the most modern, democratic societies.
Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.
I like modern efficiencies and functionality.
There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.
Although the trends are promising and reishi mushrooms exhibit a number of interesting medicinal properties, modern scientific techniques have yet to affirm its traditional 'panacea polypore' status.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
While reishi mushrooms have historically been prepared as teas or infusions, other modern preparations include capsules, tinctures, and fractionated extracts of mushrooms, mycelium, and spores.
Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.
I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications.
For thousands of years, humans believed that authority came from the gods. Then, during the modern era, humanism gradually shifted authority from deities to people.