“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”
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“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”
“No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.”
“I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.”
“Age merely shows what children we remain.”
“How young can you die of old age?”
“Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.”
“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.”
“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.”
“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.”
“To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.”
“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.”
“Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.”
“Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.”
“Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.”
“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”
“Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.”
“The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.”
“It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.”
“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”
“Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.”
“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”
“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.”
“Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.”