modern Quotes

“Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.”

“Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.”

“Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.”

“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.”

“I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.”

“Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.”

“In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.”

“Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.”

“Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.”

“It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.”