Ages Quotes

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If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great… — Louis Kronenberger
To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. — Hermann Hesse
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect… — David Hume
There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle… — Joseph Addison
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty… — Mary Chapin Carpenter
I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. — Liv Tyler
When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark… — Paul Hawken
So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages. — Mahatma Gandhi
Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls. — George Harrison
Wrath to come implies both the futurity and perpetuity of this wrath.... Yea, it is not only certainly future, but when it comes it will… — John Flavel
Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer… — Henry David Thoreau
Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature could have foreseen… — Henri Poincare
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of… — James Clerk Maxwell
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that… — Bertrand Russell
We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new expression in terms… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
The parents, the society, the state, the church, the educational system, they all depend on lies. As the child is born they start trapping it… — Rajneesh
Religion is not based on belief or faith: religion is based on awe, religion is based on wonder. Religion is based on the mysterious that… — Rajneesh
I teach you joy, not sadness. I teach you playfulness, not seriousness. I teach you love and laughter, because to me there is nothing more… — Rajneesh

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