#age

We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life." -Peter of Blois (d. 1212). ↗

— Carter Lindberg

#history-of-thought #intellectual-history #age

Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to ↗

— Edith Wharton

#learning #age

Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#folly #wisdom #age

I look at the others, simpering courtiers and visiting dignitaries, all unsuspecting of what is to come. A merciful man should spare them, but I had mercy cut out of me at a young age. ↗

— A.F. Stewart

#curse #magic #ruined-city #wizard #age

So now we are young still but a better sort of young. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#youth #age

..Thirty's the end of being young, forty is where you stop fooling yourself. ↗

— Stephen King

#age

Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice; reading books in middle age is like looking at the moon in one's courtyard; and reading books in old age is like looking at the moon on an open terrace. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#perception #age

The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia--when was the past so hauntingly accessible?--but its bitterest insight is the incapacity of even the most perfectly captured sound to restore the moment of its first inscribing. That world is no longer there. ↗

— Geoffrey O'Brien

#nostalgia #recording-music #age

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre. ↗

— Philip Roth

#battle #massacre #old #old age

Besides," she says, eyes twinkling mischievously, "it'd never work out between us. I'm still holding a candle for Professor Haven." "How could I compete with a middle-aged English professor?" "Well," she says, "you could do, but it'd be useless. Something about his receding hairline just drives me mad. ↗

— seventhswan

#kellen #age