Age Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from…

— W. H. Auden

When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their…

— Voltaire

When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.

— James Thurber

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his…

— Johan Huizinga

A man cannot leave his wisdom and his experience to his heirs.

— Vikrant Parsai

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age,…

— Jonathan Swift

The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it;…

— Woodrow Wilson

“He who would preserve the supremacy of natural feelings in social life knows not what he asks. Ever at war with himself, hesitating between…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau