Activity Quote by Walter Pater

“The direction in which the culture of an age develops is, humanly speaking, chosen by a few exceptionally intelligent men. The popular authors then…

— Gordon H. Clark

There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect…

— Kwame Nkrumah

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

— Jane Addams

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by…

— Arthur Koestler

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?

— Alfred de Vigny

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

— Franz Grillparzer

Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without…

— Anonymous

Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

— Francis Bacon

When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change.

— Fred Polak

“The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual; the old the intellectual but not so much the…

— Criss Jami