"Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age."

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"Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age."

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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

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"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me."

Nature, Being, Man, Will

"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."

Time, Thought, Will

"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

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"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."

Nature, Simplicity

"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

Idea, Nobility

"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"

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"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."

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"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

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"The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism."

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