Epoch Quote by John Joly

“What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a new, stark, more nearly naked, and…

— William Barrett

In our case, we are in the Cenozoic Era, which started at the end of the time of the dinosaurs. We are in the…

— Kenneth Lacovara

All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they…

— Karl Marx

The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did…

— Francis Galton

In the midst of each epoch, I fully realize that a new epoch will dawn.

— Marcel Duchamp

We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies…

— David Cronenberg

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.

— Pablo Picasso

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

— Cyril Connolly

Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a…

— Gianni Vattimo

Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared…

— Isak Dinesen

Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity.

— Stephen Batchelor

When you think about what Homo sapiens are about, you almost feel that we are replacing ourselves. We won't be able to breathe and…

— Irvine Welsh