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Ages Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to…
- However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our…
- All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now…
- The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.
- Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the…
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- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors. — Amy Adams
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — L. Frank Baum
- Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. — Henry Ward Beecher
- What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order… — Annie Besant
- It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. — Aneurin Bevan