One Age Quotes

35 quotes by 31 authors

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at… — William James
There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill suit the wishes… — Joseph Story
If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little. — George Earle Buckle
It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary… — John Stuart Mill
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of… — Helen Keller
A hero in one age will be a hero in another. — Charlotte Lennox
History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in… — Edward Hallett Carr
The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only… — Lon Milo DuQuette
Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. — Charles Simmons
Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated. — Rose Macaulay
The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something of Christ be… — John Flavel
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour… — Samuel Johnson
The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for… — Thomas Paine
In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools alike, against the… — Walter Pater
No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating… — Benjamin Martin
Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only… — Giuseppe Mazzini
I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well… — Margaret Mahy
Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other,… — Samuel Johnson

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