"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."

Age, Discovery, Freedom, Liberty

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"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

William James, American Philosopher

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Age, Youth

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

Willa Cather, American Author

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"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent."

Truth

"There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war."

War

"All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya."

Science

"No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past."

Wisdom

"There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away."

History

"So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean."

Society

"The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife."

Relationship

"No language has ever had a word for a virgin man."

Identity

"The family is the nucleus of civilization."

Family

"For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give 'significant form' to the chaos of experience?"

Philosophy