Modernity - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

The philosophy of Islam will be shown in terms of the modern philosophy, and if there are imperfections in the old ideas then they shall be removed. My task is merely constructive, and in this construction I shall take into consideration the best traditions of Islamic philosophy. — Muhammad Iqbal

The secret of modernity is hidden in its capacity to recruit people from any background and any confession to participate in the greatest of military campaigns, the campaign for the progressive relief of anonymous stress arising from the oppression of the real. — Peter Sloterdijk Stress and...

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge. — Flannery O'Connor Mystery and...

Mendel hated motorists. Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage. — John Le Carré Call for the...

Yes, being black is a full-time job: sometimes you are invisible, other times you are hyper-visible," he says. "Sometimes you are welcome, other times you are not. The thermostat is always moving and...

We live longer, but less accurate in shorter sentences.

And think about the precise meaning of that term: a Narcissus is not proud. A proud man has disdain for other people, he undervalues them. The Narcissus overvalues them, because in every person's eyes...

What we call self -consciousness is seriously distanced from our original instincts. The present man has achieved the power of will and authority to some extent because of the urbanization, and...

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1729 - Edmund Burke 1949 - Haruki Murakami 1954 - Howard Stern 1876 - Jack London 1993 - Zayn Malik 1951 - Kirstie Alley 1863 - Swami Vivekananda 1923 - Alice Miller 1987 - Naya Rivera 1825 - Brooke Foss Westcott 1944 - Joe Frazier 1951 - Rush Limbaugh 1964 - Jeff Bezos 1978 - Jeremy Camp 1628 - Charles Perrault 1856 - John Singer Sargent 1970 - Kaja Foglio 1953 - Rick Santelli 1986 - Gemma Arterton 1968 - Raf Simons 1958 - Christiane Amanpour 1966 - Olivier Martinez 1996 - Ella Henderson 1917 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 1949 - Ottmar Hitzfeld 1928 - Ruth Brown 1968 - Heather Mills 1946 - George Duke 1968 - Rachael Harris 1923 - Ira Hayes

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

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