Age Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.

— Charles Lamb

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

— Plutarch

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than…

— Ezra Pound

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

— Desiderius Erasmus

“Our Age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature…

— Harvey J. Kaye

“Perhaps we are passing through an age of democratisation in art, while awaiting the rise of some princely master who shall establish a new…

— Kakuzō Okakura

In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we…

— Anonymous

“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and…

— Novalis

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

— Henry David Thoreau

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

— Lord Chesterfield

“This age needs rather men like Shakespeare, or Milton, or Pope; men who are filled with the strength of their cultures and do not…

— John Updike