“To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.”

— Joseph Goebbels

Modern sein heißt nichts anderes als ewige Inhalte in wechselnde neue Formen zu füllen.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

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Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister 1897–1945

Eugene M. Kulischer (1881–1956) American sociologist

Variant: The modern age did not so much invent new forms of migration as alter drastically the means and conditions of the old forms
Source: Europe on the Move: War and Population Changes, 1917-1947, 1948, p. 96 as cited in: Sarah Collinson (1999) Globalisation and the dynamics of international migration implications for the refugee regime http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4ff59b852.pdf. May 1999. p. 1

“By a principle I mean something that is an eternal and universal truth.”

John Buchan (1875–1940) British politician

"A University's Bequest to Youth" (10 October 1936)
Canadian Occasions (1940)
Context: To-day we have fewer dogmas, but I think that we have stronger principles. By a dogma I mean a deduction from facts which is only valid under certain conditions, and which becomes untrue if those conditions change. By a principle I mean something that is an eternal and universal truth.

“The function of the modern artist was not to convey beauty, but to convey new truths.”

Eric R. Kandel (1929) American neuropsychiatrist

The Age of Insight (2012)

“I think we must reflect more on what democracy in the exercise of authority would mean. Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new 'truth' to be 'discovered' by a new majority tomorrow?”

Pope Benedict XVI (1927) 265th Pope of the Catholic Church

The Public Square, by Richard John Neuhaus, First Things 1996
1990s

“History moves in contradictions. The skeleton of historic existence, the economic structure of society, also develops in contradictions. Forms eternally follow forms. Everything has only a passing being. The dynamic force of life creates the new over and over again — such is the law inherent in reality.”

Nikolai Bukharin (1888–1938) Soviet politician

Imperialism and World Economy (1917), Ch. 15 http://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1917/imperial/index.htm

“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Letter to William Hunter (11 March 1790)
1790s

“Remembering is only a new form of suffering.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

“The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.”

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) British political economist

Essay on the Principle of Population (1798; rev. through 1826)

“Truth can thus only percolate in the form of hearsay.”

Robert Conquest book The Great Terror

The Great Terror, pg 754; Quoted in Grover Furr on Robert Conquest http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/08/05/grover-furr-on-robert-conquest/ at stalinsociety.org',' 2015/08/05

“Is there still a possibility of public truth?
The prime condition for that would be that you pose your own questions, not just answer them. The questions of others have a distorting influence, one adapts to them, accepts words and concepts that should be avoided at all costs.
Ideally, you should use only words which you have filled with new meaning.”

Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer

J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 5
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

“To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.”

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