Present Age Quotes

31 quotes by 29 authors

That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to… — Ben Jonson
When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love… — Saint John Chrysostom
I recognize no empire of this present age. — Paul Speratus
It is yet to be decided whether the Revolution must ultimately be considered as a blessing or a curse: a blessing or a curse, not… — George Washington
The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this… — Hans F. Sennholz
The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener… — Samuel Johnson
The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors... so that a very few and exceedingly rich… — Pope Leo XIII
The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ...… — Ludwig Feuerbach
The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values. — Christopher Dawson
I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out… — Masanobu Fukuoka
The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence with the great… — Moses Hess
To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central… — Robert Graves
In the present age, man proves his separation from his Creator by his spirit of self-sufficienc y and positive rejection of God. The present issue… — Lewis Sperry Chafer
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. — Pericles
The Golden Age was never the present age. — Benjamin Franklin
The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit. — Norman Douglas
I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious… — George Washington
The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in… — Walker Percy
... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age. — Saul Bellow
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that… — Charles Caleb Colton

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