age

The crown of praise is old age.

— Hryhoriy Skovoroda

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs.

—Seneca

Every age but ours has had its model, its ideal. All of these have been given up by our culture; the saint, the hero, the gentleman, the knight, the mystic. About all we have left is the well-adjusted man without problems, a very pale and doubtful substitute.

Abraham Maslow

“We practise believer s baptism, and baptize all who confess faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whether they are children or adults. Our enquiry as to fitness does not refer to age, but to faith.”

Charles Spurgeon

“We practise believer s baptism, and baptize all who confess faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whether they are children or adults. Our enquiry as to fitness does not refer to age, but to faith.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

—Voltaire

Youth has no age.

—Pablo Picasso

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

—Aldous Huxley

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

—Henry Ford

Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In our age the greatest and most harmful crimes aren’t those that are committed occasionally, but those that are committed every day without being recognized as crimes.

—Leo Tolstoy

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.

—Søren Kierkegaard

Do not seek to possess either goods or fiefs for your old age.

—Miyamoto Musashi

Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs.

—Seneca

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.

—Isaac Newton

Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.

—Seneca

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

—Plato

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

—Aristotle

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

—Isaac Newton

What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?

—Nikolai Gogol