Epoch Quotes
Epoch Quote of the day
Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
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.
Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.
There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.
The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.
Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.
Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity.
If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch, however revolutionary one may be.
All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.
Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a decisive value in itself.
It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.
When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they pointed to is the use of plastics in the earth.
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.
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.
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.
We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.
In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.
Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.
The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.
Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves.
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.
We are in the times of the beginning of a new epoch for Christianity. True apostolic Christianity is being restored to the earth.
Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs and borders, opening the way for an era of globalization.
I think Detroit shows that we've come to the end of the industrial epoch and have to find a new mode of production.
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.
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.
...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.
At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved.
We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.
God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.
The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.
I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.