No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience.… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through;… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event… — John Fiske Copy Share Image
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation… — Douglas Houghton Campbell Copy Share Image
There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Abruptly, she knew that after this night she was never going to be the same again. Nothing was ever going to be… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Religion itself cannot but be dynamic which is why "return" is an incorrect term. A return to the forms of religion which… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Free from public debt, at peace with all the world, and with no complicated interests to consult in our intercourse with foreign… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its… — Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne Copy Share Image
...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“It was an epoch of her life, an hour never to be forgotten, this first coming into relation with a really noble… — Charlotte M. Vaile Copy Share Image
To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
In our case, we are in the Cenozoic Era, which started at the end of the time of the dinosaurs. We are… — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
We live in a time of global transformation. The power on Earth no longer lies with the forces of imperialistic globalisation, but… — Dieter Duhm Copy Share Image
Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts.… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It's fitting, then, that we begin this exploration of ourselves and of the world with music, and more specifically with a musical… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
When you think about what Homo sapiens are about, you almost feel that we are replacing ourselves. We won't be able to… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages of… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
