“The natural role of the twentieth-century man is anxiety.”

“The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.”

“Bureaucracy will be the deity of the twentieth century.”

“Many cases of twentieth-century American map geekdom, it seems, began the same way that many twentieth-century Americans began: conceived in the backseats of Buicks”

“Most of the makers of the twentieth-century mind, figures such as Freud, Heisenberg, Picasso, Joyce, and Eliot, have in common an about-face on the subject-object question and the mindmatter question; they all reject the dualism that arbitrarily and irreversibly splits the world into pieces. This rejection of dualism and the corresponding reach for monism are of the essence in understanding the revolutionary nature of twentieth-century science and art.”

“Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.”