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

Age, Exploration, Investigation

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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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"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."

Charlie Sheen, American Actor

Age, Information, Now

"You can only be twice someone's age once."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Age, Truth, Life, Wisdom, Power

"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

Age, Aging, Identity, Time, Memory

"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

"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Age, Nature

"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Age, Old, Youth

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

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Time, Old

"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"

Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch Philosopher

Age, Kiss, Babies, Enemy

"We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed."

Lawrence Clark Powell, American Librarian

Age, Work, Books, Children

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Age, Burden, Memories, Old

Explore more quotes by Alfred de Vigny

"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, Writer

"We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous."

Love, Needs

"From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own."

Nature, Truth, Doubt, Man

"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, Fact, Opinion, Public

"Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty."

Art, Beauty

"Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?"

Life, Imitation

"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, Values, Events

"Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?"

Evil, Example, Facts, Memory

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

Poetry, Life, Religion, Time

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

Age, Exploration, Investigation