Famous quotes containing the word epochs:
“There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.”
—Henry Miller (18911980)
“The great epochs of our lives occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is evil in us as what is best.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the worlds culture.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)