Age Quote by Jacques Barzun

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

— Honore de Balzac

Philosophy would solidly be established, if men would more carefully distinguish those things that they know from those that they ignore.

— Robert Boyle

We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by…

— Robert Bly

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order…

— Aristotle

“It is eminently reasonable that men should seek to associate with those who share their convictions and values. It is impossible to deal or…

— Ayn Rand

Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the world and…

— Bertrand Russell

Men shop for problem solving. They want something familiar. So if it's a new version of something they understand, they are right there with…

— Nick Wooster

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.

— Jacob Viner

Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the…

— Francis Bacon

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

— Zhuangzi

Too much philosophy makes men mad.

— Alan Judd