Quotes About Epoch

Life is the subtotal of time

History is passing us by.

We are coming to a fork in the road in human history, where the system of global capitalism is forcing an end to the Holocene Epoch of the last 12,000 years, the geological period within which human civilisation has developed, where we have to decide between 'capitalism or the planet'. —DEL WESTON1

Time was, time will be again.

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.

We must understand the motives and forces of our time and analyze their structure from three points of view: the material, the functional, and the spiritual. We must make clear in what respects our epoch differs from others and in what respects it is similar.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

we have entered the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch defined by humanity's influence on the global environment.

This coming Messiah was to be a sign to the Israelites that an epoch had ended, and from that time forward, they would live securely under His leadership:

There was before her and now there is after her, and that is the difference in my life.

These are the times for which we were born.

Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

social, and even individual differences are merged when seen from a distance in the uniformity of an epoch.

In each epoch memory reconstructs an image of the past that is in accord with the predominant thoughts of the society.

The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the universe can never be the products of increasing empirical knowledge, and that the highest ideals, which move us most forcefully, are always formed only in the struggle with other ideals which are just as sacred to others as ours are to us.

The maximalist dreamers of this epoch, the Left Bolshevik (Vpered) group led by the philosopher of proletarian culture, Aleksandr Bogdanov, were effectively defeated by the hardheaded "centrist" Leninists by 1912.

But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing, in any other civilization, in any other epoch, could compare itself to the mobile perfection of a contemporary shopping center functioning at full tilt. I had thus consumed, with joy, shoes most notably; then, gradually, I had grown weary, and I had understood that my life, without this daily input of basic, renewable pleasures, was going to stop being simple.

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

Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader's limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books that blunt his critical sense and damage his literary sensibility. (I, 258)

For us, the events which took place between 1500 and 1800 on the soil of Western Europe constitute the most important third of "world" history; for the Chinese historian, on the contrary, who looks back on and judges by 4000 years of Chinese history, those centuries generally are a brief and unimportant episode, infinitely less significant than the centuries of the Han dynasty (206 B.C. to 220 A.D.), which in his "world" history are epoch-making.

It is in underdeveloped world that he central, overriding fact of our epoch becomes manifest to the naked eye: the capitalist system, once a mighty engine of economic development, has turned into a no less formidable hurdle to human advancement.

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.