"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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"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

Age, Absurdity, May

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

Willa Cather, American Author

Age, Writer

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

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Time, Old

"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

Age, Months

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

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Age, Belief, Disguise

"No lie ever reaches old age."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Lie, Old

"At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me."

Barnaby C. Keeney, American Educator

Age, People, College, Hell

"The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them thus preserving the system."

Quentin Crewe, British Journalist

Age, Children, Parents

"The surest sign of age is loneliness."

Annie Dillard, American Author

Age, Loneliness

Explore more quotes by Alfred de Vigny

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

Character

"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

"France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man."

History

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

Evil

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

Life

"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

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

Poetry

"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

"Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?"

Literature

"Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever."

Art