One Age Quotes
35 quotes by 31 authors
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
— Matthew Arnold
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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
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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
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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
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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
— George Earle Buckle
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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
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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
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A hero in one age will be a hero in another.
— Charlotte Lennox
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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
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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
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Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
— Charles Simmons
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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