Conditions Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every epoch which seeks renewal first projects its ideal into a human form. In order to comprehend its own essence tangibly, the spirit of…

— Stefan Zweig

“When you are criticizing the philosophy of an epoch, do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which its exponents feel it…

— Anonymous

There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that…

— Alfred North Whitehead

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

Every epoch dreams its successor.

— Jules Michelet

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more…

— Karl Marx

One judges an epoch as much by its Art as by its customs.

— Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an…

— Edmund Husserl

The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

— Alfred de Vigny

The conditions that direct the order of . . . the living world . . . are marked by their persistence in improving the birthright of successive generations.

— Francis Galton