Age Quote by Edward Gibbon

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death…

— Gertrude Stein

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have…

— Alfred North Whitehead

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

— Gertrude Stein

In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.

— Michael McFaul

Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages.

— Geoff Nicholson

The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost…

— Ian Hacking

Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.

— Cesare Pavese

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.

— Rosa Luxemburg

All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable

— Albie Sachs

A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a…

— Charles Eisenstein