"We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements."

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"We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements."

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Age, Society, Money, Class

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Age, Old, Youth

"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Age, Impact, Success, Motivation

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

Age, Technology

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

Age, Service

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Age, Love, Pleasure, Regret

"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Age, Old, Years

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Age, Work, Old, Sorrow

"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Age, Love, Man, Old

"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Man

Explore more quotes by Alfred de Vigny

"But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity."

Poetry

"On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born."

History

"No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart."

Heart

"One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact."

History

"What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete."

Civilization

"What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?"

Literature

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

Character

"The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man."

God

"The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart."

Heart

"Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?"

Thought