Age Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“I am firmly convinced to-day that, generally speaking, it is in youth that men lay the essential groundwork of their creative thought, wherever that…

— Adolf Hitler

“This age needs rather men like Shakespeare, or Milton, or Pope; men who are filled with the strength of their cultures and do not…

— John Updike

I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the…

— Gabriele d'Annunzio

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

— Rowan Williams

The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we…

— Andre Malraux

The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this…

— Isaiah Berlin

Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!

— Franz Grillparzer

“The direction in which the culture of an age develops is, humanly speaking, chosen by a few exceptionally intelligent men. The popular authors then…

— Gordon H. Clark

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great…

— John Ruskin

“Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It's always been that way.”

— Seb Kirby

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . .

— Harriet Monroe

The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men…

— Willa Cather