Epoch Quotes

113 Epoch quotes by 96 unique authors

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking. — Gertrude Stein
If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al,… — Julian Baggini
No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of oneâ€™s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle… — Joseph Conrad
Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find… — Ludwig von Mises
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation,… — Joseph Conrad
It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch. — Monique Wittig
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it… — Charles Dickens
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
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in… — Niccolo Machiavelli
After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me. — Darynda Jones
By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch… — Carl Sagan
Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must… — Honore de Balzac
Abruptly, she knew that after this night she was never going to be the same again. Nothing was ever going to be the same. Oh,… — Karen Marie Moning
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay. — Immanuel Kant
I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The obscurest epoch is to-day. — Robert Louis Stevenson
In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie. — Carl Sagan
No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of… — Carl Jung
From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of… — Julius Wellhausen

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