"The obscurest epoch is today." — Robert Louis Stevenson
"The obscurest epoch is today."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign…
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting…
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we…
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the…
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon…
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to…
— Ludwig von Mises
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A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard…
— Adolf Hitler
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All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether…
— Joseph Epstein
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Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world…
— Jacques Maritain
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In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even…
— Jonas Salk
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has…
— Edmund Husserl
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Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out…
— Unknown Author
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The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a…
— George Bernard Shaw
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In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters…
— James Madison
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