{"quotes":[{"text":"This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["business","corporate","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","making-a-difference","marketing","modern","modern","modern-society","modernism","modernity","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","social-network","social-networking","social-networks","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":2944,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"But do you imagine there’s a certain type of person in the world who conforms to the idea of a ‘bad person'? You’ll never find someone who fits that mold neatly, you know. On the whole, all people are good, or at least they’re normal. The frightening thing is that they can suddenly turn bad when it comes to the crunch. That’s why you have to be careful.","author":"Sōseki Natsume","tags":["antebellum","contingency","ethics","evil","fin-de-siecle","freedom","individual","japan","meiji","modernism","self","the-crunch"],"id":3561,"author_id":"S%C5%8Dseki+Natsume"},{"text":"The modern world has forgotten the necessity of encouraging men to be better. They speak of sick men or healthy men, of interesting people or uninteresting people; they never, or seldom, indicate that there is and must be an interior and spiritual improvement in man before any of the glowing coals of humanity can be reached. They have cultivated everything but the goodness of man. The result of such shallowness is everywhere apparent.","author":"Francis Beauchesne Thornton","tags":["goodness","holiness","humanity","modernism","modernity","sin","spiritual-growth","spiritual-warfare","virtue","virtues-and-vices"],"id":10138,"author_id":"Francis+Beauchesne+Thornton"},{"text":"Knowing that it is the earth we tread, we learn to tread carefully, lest it be rent open. Realizing that it is the heavens that hang above us, we come to fear the echoing thunderbolt. The world demands that we battle with others for the sake of our own reputation, and so we undergo the sufferings bred of illusion. While we live in this world with its daily business, forced to walk the tightrope of profit and loss, true love is an empty thing, and the wealth before our eyes mere dust.","author":"Sōseki Natsume","tags":["art","existentialism","floating-world","japanese-literature","modernism","philosophy","poetry"],"id":11122,"author_id":"S%C5%8Dseki+Natsume"},{"text":"The reason for which Picasso was compelled to resort to signs and allegories should now be clear enough: his utter political helplessness in the face of a historical situation which he set out to record; his titanic effort to confront a particular historical event with an allegedly eternal truth; his desire to give hope and comfort and to provide a happy ending, to compensate for the terror, the destruction, and inhumanity of the event. Picasso did not see what Goya had already seen, namely, that the course of history can be changed only by historical means and only if men shape their own history instead of acting as the automaton of an earthly power or an allegedly eternal idea.","author":"Max Raphael","tags":["anarchy","eternal-ideas","goya","history","modernism","picasso"],"id":20829,"author_id":"Max+Raphael"},{"text":"...If you do not even understand what words say,how can you expect to pass judgementon what words conceal?","author":"H.D.","tags":["conceal","doolittle","h-d","hilda","modernism","poetry","poets","words"],"id":23034,"author_id":"H.D."},{"text":"Finally, the functionalist organization, by privileging progress (I.E. Time), causes the condition of its own possibility--space itself--to be forgotten: space thus becomes the blind spot in a scientific and political technology. This is the way in which the Concept-city functions: a place of transformations and appropriations, the object of various kinds of interference but also a subject that is constantly enriched by new attributes, it is simultaneously the machinery and the hero of modernity.","author":"Michel de Certeau","tags":["95","city","modernism","space","time"],"id":51964,"author_id":"Michel+de+Certeau"},{"text":"Literature is language charged with meaning.","author":"Ezra Pound","tags":["modernism","pound","readers","reading","writers"],"id":116660,"author_id":"Ezra+Pound"},{"text":"If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.","author":"John Cage","tags":["acceptance","avant-garde","modernism","novelty","populism"],"id":126612,"author_id":"John+Cage"},{"text":"Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.","author":"Douglas Wilson","tags":["modernism","politics","revolution"],"id":146176,"author_id":"Douglas+Wilson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":52,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}