Epoch Quotes - Page 6

• Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.

  Alexander Stoddart

  Art, Culture, Contemporary

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• By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.

  Carl Sagan

  Space, Bangs, Horizon

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.287, Ballantine Books

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• I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Vanity, Stupidity

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• The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

  Cyril Connolly

  Civilization, Luxury, Goal

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• Innumerable conditions must be exquisitely optimized for the support of humanity and of civilization. Many of them are highly time variable. Evidence showing that a wide variety of independent conditions all reached optimality during the identical narrow epoch when human beings appeared on the cosmic and terrestrial scene testifies of supernatural design and purpose rather than mere coincidence.

  Hugh Jackman

  Independent, Civilization, Design

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• I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.

  Robert E. Howard

  Country, Race, Interest

  Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, August 9, 1932.

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• Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Hypocrisy, Dying, Characteristics

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• A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teeth, Aphorism, Century

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.296, Courier Corporation

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• Amos Vogel was a mentor, a guiding light for me. In his presence, you always rose. But his importance to me is of minor significance. What is significant is that with him an entire epoch ends. The Last Lion has left us.I am still not capable - or rather unwilling - to understand the fact that Amos passed away, because a man like him cannot be dead. His traces are everywhere.

  Werner Herzog

  Men, Light, Rose

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• When we hold it (amber) in our hands, we hold also that furious epoch where rioted all monsters and poisons, where death fecundated and life destroyed, where superabundance demanded such existences, no souls, but fiercest animal fire - just for that I hate it!

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

  Hate, Animal, Fire

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Alfred Bendixen (1989). “The Amber Gods, and Other Stories”, p.56, Rutgers University Press

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• In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A minimal knowledge of physics, astrophysics, and perhaps mathematics, brings to light certain patterns that make these subjects easier to understand. It is striking to see the extreme similarity between these scientific propositions and the forms that recur in all times, places and civilizations.

  Philippe Starck

  Light, Civilization, Design

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• To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from a distance of several tens of kilometers, to land on its satellite or even on its surface, what can be more fantastic? From the moment of using rocket devices a new great era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Distance, Moon, Rocks

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• Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang and Wu Ti were barely able to write. The first emperors of the Tang and Sung dynasties were crude. Genghis Khan, man of his epoch and favored by heaven, knew only how to hunt the great eagle. They are all gone. Only today are we men of feeling.

  Mao Zedong

  Beautiful, Girl, Hero

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• The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair.

  Winston Churchill

  Ambition, Men, Play

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thinking, Civilization, Supposing That

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• Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

  Alan Hirsch

  Jesus, Adventure, Journey

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.110, Baker Books

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• The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization.

  Carl Schmitt

  Organization, Political, World

  "Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty", by Carl Schmitt, translated by George Schwab, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985.

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• I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and cultureof their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.

  John Dewey

  Philosophical, Ideas, Links

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.214, Indiana University Press

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• One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

  Albert Einstein

  Clerks, Maxwell

  "Britain's most important historic laboratory is under threat" by Boris Jardine, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2015.

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• The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse ... There has never before, in the world's history, been an epoch which has tolerated and even welcomed such a flood of verse as has been poured forth over Great Britain during the last three years.

  Edmund Gosse

  War, Years, Poetry

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• The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Order, Law, Custody

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.7, Beard Books

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• Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

  Paul Lafargue

  Pain, Facts, Misery

  Paul Lafargue (2016). “The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end all that was Misha Vainberg would evaporate along with the styles and delusions of his epoch, leaving behind not one flutter of his sad heavy brilliance, not one damp spot around which his successors could congregate to appreciate his life and times.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Night, Appreciate, Personality

  Gary Shteyngart (2013). “Absurdistan and Super Sad True Love Story: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.183, Random House

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• A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Teeth, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche; (2016). “Human, All Too Human”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• We live in a time of global transformation. The power on Earth no longer lies with the forces of imperialistic globalisation, but with those groups who are now connecting with the forces of transformation. It is not terror and violence, but trust and solidarity which will lead the new world. This is not just a wishful dream, but the objective reality of the coming epoch.

  Dieter Duhm

  Dream, Lying, Reality

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