Alain de Botton Quotes, Age Quotes, Aging Quotes

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

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The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

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If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

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I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

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In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

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Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

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We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising.

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Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?

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My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

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What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

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Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.

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Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.

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But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retailed to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day.

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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

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If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

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I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

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