The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Today is reality. Yesterday is history.
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.