Epochs Quotes

37 quotes by 30 authors

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs. — Le Corbusier
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs. — Allan Kardec
In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose. — Francois Arago
There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done. — Liberty Hyde Bailey
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
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
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
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
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
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. — Thomas Huxley
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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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