Quotes of: Epoch Keyword

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

Wassily Kandinsky

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.

Amin Maalouf

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.

Towards a New Architecture

It is noteworthy that at a time when every religious sanction of authority has vanished, we live in a very authoritarian epoch.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

Karl Marx

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie. [Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]

Cosmos

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

Middlemarch

In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.

Trofim Lysenko

It was an epoch of her life, an hour never to be forgotten, this first coming into relation with a really noble library.

The Orcutt Girls

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

Karl Lagerfeld

From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice.

Julius Wellhausen

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

Alfred de Vigny

There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the art of water purification.

Positive

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.

Cosmos

This is the way history happens: it is measured out in days rather than epochs.

The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street

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.

Niccolo Machiavelli

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.

Edmund White

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

Gertrude Stein

After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me.

Darynda Jones

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.

John Fiske