Epoch Quotes

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Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook. — Ludwig von Mises
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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of… — Adolf Hitler
All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly… — Joseph Epstein
Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter. — Alfred North Whitehead
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… — Jacques Maritain
In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so… — Jonas Salk
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… — Edmund Husserl
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation of Hofmeister's epoch-making… — Douglas Houghton Campbell
The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm between… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of… — George Bernard Shaw
In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty.… — James Madison
The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity. — Stephen Batchelor
My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work… — Jean Nouvel
And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance. — Pier Paolo Pasolini
It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the… — Ilya Ehrenburg
What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an elite of power;… — C. Wright Mills
The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the universe… — Max Weber
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul… — Harriet Ann Jacobs

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