Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
Charles Baudelaire
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
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Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
Theodor W. Adorno
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Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity.
Joshua Oppenheimer
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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
Paul de Man
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If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.
Bruno Latour
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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
Ulrich Beck
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Modernity is a shifting entity, not easily defined. Exactly the same is true of empire.
Linda Colley
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.
Emmanuel Macron
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
I. M. Pei
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For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly.
Elliott Abrams
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