Accepting Quote by Gertrude Stein

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes…

— Joseph Campbell

...he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded with an…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our…

— Samuel Johnson

“Time didn’t come to a standstill, it progressed”

— Sunday Adelaja

“There is no time like the present to present the present”

— Ronald B Adler

We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead…

— Oswald Spengler

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness”…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Time is the only critic without ambition.

— John Steinbeck