Quotes About Epoch

When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history.

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

We live at a very special time . . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!

The obscurest epoch is to-day.

Quanto mais alguém pertence à posteridade, isto é, à humanidade em geral e como um todo, tanto mais estranho será à sua própria época.

the twenty-first century might be termed a Ludic Century, an epoch in which games and play are the model for how we interact with culture and with each other.

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

Archaeologists are adamant that the epoch of the gods, which the Ancient Egyptians, called the First Time, is nothing more than a myth. The Ancient Egyptians, however, who may have been better informed about their past than we are, did not share this view.

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.

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.

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.

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]

The time we are living in is a significant time

The time we are living in is a crucial time in the mind of God

Each second of every time has its own story and history to be filed.

history beats in longer periods than a man's heart

For Riegl the primary level of facts was not style itself (the morphology), nor even the sequence of objects, but the Kunstwollen of an epoch, just as for Wölfflin it was the form of seeing.

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

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

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.

peacetime leaders, who are strong in theory, but weak in matters of organization and practical work. Such leaders are popular only among an upper layer of the proletariat, and then only up to a certain time. When the epoch of revolution sets in, when practical revolutionary slogans are demanded of the leaders, the theoreticians quit the stage and give way to new men.

My appearance qualifies me for historic characterizations, going back to the year one.

Obedeciendo a una ley irrevocable, la historia niega a los contemporáneos la posibilidad de conocer en sus inicios los grandes movimientos que determinan su época

But in no epoch has the struggle to find sanctuary in a foreign country been as arduous as in the present day, as countries isolate themselves behind hostility and jealousy (from The House of a Thousand Fortunes / Das Haus der tausend Schicksale, 1937)