It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Shakespeare and Co dedicates itself to a shared, heady and outdated ideal that is scarce in our protective and fearful age.
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.
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.
The New Age, I think, is a term that is well laid to rest.
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.