Shakespeare, in some sense, helped create the modern man, didn't he, his influence is that pervasive. He held the mirror up to nature, but he also created that mirror: so the image he created is the very one we hold ourselves up to.
Jess WinfieldMots clés shakespeare nature mirror modern-man pervasive-influence-of-the-bard
Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?
Maybe the lies are all that we've got
But aren't they beautiful?
Mots clés truth lies modern-man
And therefore the idea of serving mankind, of the brotherhood and oneness of people, is fading more and more in the world, and indeed the idea now even meets with mockery, for how can one drop one's habits, where will this slave go now that he is so accustomed to satisfying the innumerable needs he himself has invented? He is isolated, and what does he care about the whole? They have succeeded in amassing more and more things, but have less and less joy.
Fyodor DostoevskyMots clés happiness unity materialism modern-man
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Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains—except kill it.
Erich FrommMots clés love time 1956 killing-time modern-man quickly waste-time
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