“In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.”
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“Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.”
“One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.”
“No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.”
“A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.”
“Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.”
“The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.”
“Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.”
“The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.”
“The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.”
“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.”
“Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.”
“We are always the same age inside.”
“I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.”
“Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.”
“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.”
“Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.”
“What is an adult? A child blown up by age.”
“Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.”
“Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
“I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.”
“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.”
“What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.”
“I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.”