#epoch

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

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A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#baroque #contemporary #epochs #expressions #findings

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#blunders #commit #epochs #fewest #make

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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

— Alfred de Vigny

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The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#customary #epoch #law #order #privileged

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. ↗

— Karl Marx

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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#groups #individuals #insanity #nations #parties