Epochs Quotes
37 quotes by 30 authors
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The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.
— Le Corbusier
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Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.
— Henry David Thoreau
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It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One…
— William Dean Howells
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The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs…
— Wendell Phillips
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I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes,…
— Augusto Roa Bastos
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A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products…
— Juan Goytisolo
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The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by unknown authors who…
— Simon Sebag-Montefiore
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Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs.
— Allan Kardec
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In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.
— Francois Arago
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There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way…
— Hannes Alfven
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As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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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…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would…
— Georges Cuvier
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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
— Thomas Huxley
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly…
— Camille Paglia
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