Epoch Quotes

113 Epoch quotes by 96 unique authors

Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it. — Le Corbusier
Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography; give… — Victor Cousin
We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without… — David Cronenberg
Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than… — Lion Feuchtwanger
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in… — Francis Galton
We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant to turn our back upon the frontier… — James A. Michener
The discovery which has been pointed to by theory is always one of profound interest and importance, but it is usually the close and crown… — Oliver Lodge
Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world? — Thomas Carlyle
If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch,… — Georges Braque
All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word. — Adolf Hitler
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view. — Wassily Kandinsky
Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts. By contrast, our… — Burt Rutan
The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and may still be… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the… — Karl Marx
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones. — Karl Marx
Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today,… — Karl Lagerfeld
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. — Thomas Mann
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is… — Karl Marx
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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