Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

Honore de Balzac

A man’s shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

Gothe

In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so vital that it is part of a great new revolution that is taking place. I believe we are entering a whole new epoch.

Jonas Salk

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Cyril Connolly

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

Nietzsche

Every epoch dreams its successor.

Jules Michelet