Top 210 Epoch Quotes & Sayings

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

Our epoch does not love itself.

We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.

We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.

The obscurest epoch is today.

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

A country, a style or an epoch are interesting only for the idea behind them.

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.

A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.

I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order....I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our world. Evolution works through indirection: each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next.

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.

It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.

The obscurest epoch is to-day.

I think Detroit shows that we've come to the end of the industrial epoch and have to find a new mode of production.

Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of a brave anarchist. The Arabian epoch-the Arabs look down on the Turks as they do on dogs-was the most cultured, the most intellectual and in every way best and happiest epoch in Spanish history. It was followed by the period of the persecutions with its unceasing atrocities.

For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.

Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.

It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved.

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.

We live in an epoch of denudation.

The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing minorities and put themselves in their place. Then, also, is produced the phenomenon of agglomeration, of "the full." For that reason, as Spengler has very well observed, it was necessary, just as in our day, to construct enormous buildings. The epoch of the masses is the epoch of the colossal.

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

If fashion is good, it has no epoch.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

I compose for the common man, for our epoch.

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

Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.

When you think of it, you know, probably the biggest victim of our epoch is the American people because of all the crimes committed in its name.

Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.

All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.

Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

According to U.S. strategy, if you never see the other, his destruction will be more acceptableso that when Iraqi soldiers surrendered, sooner than expected, it was as if they emerged from a dream, a flash-back, a lost epoch--an epoch when the enemy still had a body and was still "like us.

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

CPEC is an epoch-making project going to put Pakistan-China friendship and their economic cooperation to new heights.

There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.

We live in an epoch where rational reasoning associated with evidence isn't universally accepted and is, in fact, in jeopardy. That worries me a lot.

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

One judges an epoch as much by its Art as by its customs.

I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.

The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and the philosopher (who is in this matter a layman too) imagine, substantially unalterable, but subject like every art to unnoticed changes form epoch to epoch. The development of the great arts ought never to be treated without an (assuredly not unprofitable) side-glance at contemporary mathematics.

Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

Every epoch dreams its successor.

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.