Philosophy Quote by Gordon H. Clark

“The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual; the old the intellectual but not so much the…

— Criss Jami

The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and…

— Walter Pater

“The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father’s opinions and even into those of…

— John Updike

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

— Franz Grillparzer

Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.

— John Henrik Clarke

“It is not until an age has receded into history, and all its mediocrity has dropped away from it, that we can see it…

— Arnold Bennett

“I am firmly convinced to-day that, generally speaking, it is in youth that men lay the essential groundwork of their creative thought, wherever that…

— Adolf Hitler

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It's always been that way.”

— Seb Kirby

In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the…

— Steven Pinker