Epoch Quotes - Page 6

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

  Joseph Goebbels

  Hypocrisy, Dying, Characteristics

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

  Alexander Stoddart

  Art, Culture, Contemporary

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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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• One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages of probable regional or global wars on the basis of the balance of forces generating from the basic contradictions of our epoch.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  War, Successful, People

  "Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People's Republic". Book by Edmund J. Keller, 1991.

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• In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
  By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
  But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
  And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.'

  Rudyard Kipling

  Pay, Abundance, Robbing

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Selected Verse”, p.295, Pan Macmillan

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• For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Faithful, France, Frenchmen

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every epoch which seeks renewal first projects its ideal into a human form. In order to comprehend its own essence tangibly, the spirit of the time chooses a human being as its prototype and raising this single individual, often one upon whom it has chanced to come, far beyond his measure, the spirit enthuses itself for its own enthusiasm.

  Stefan Zweig

  Change, Order, Essence

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• According to U.S. strategy, if you never see the other, his destruction will be more acceptableso that when Iraqi soldiers surrendered, sooner than expected, it was as if they emerged from a dream, a flash-back, a lost epoch--an epoch when the enemy still had a body and was still "like us.

  Serge Daney

  Dream, Soldier, Enemy

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• It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather vague, of the mathematics of his epoch, i.e. the period of time when he is 50.

  Jean Dieudonne

  Years, Mathematics, Periods

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• Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.

  Jose Marti

  Reflection, Men, Expression

  "Henry Ward Beecher". Essay by Jose Marti, 1887.

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• It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view of geological periods, geology from the point of view of astronomy.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Views, Judging, Giving

  Entry for July 20, 1848, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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