Henry Giles (1809–1882) Irish minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 33.
Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/PB/ <br class="br">Context: Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
Henry Giles (1809–1882) Irish minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 33.
“Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.”
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) French poet and critic
Chaque âge a ses plaisirs, son esprit et ses mœurs.
Canto III, l. 374
The Art of Poetry (1674)
“Every music has its own soul, Quincy.”
Ray Charles (1930–2004) American musician
Source: Said to Quincy Jones as quoted in The Arranger, an article in Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-arranger-20940901/
David Hilbert Mathematical Problems
Mathematical Problems (1900)
Context: History teaches the continuity of the development of science. We know that every age has its own problems, which the following age either solves or casts aside as profitless and replaces by new ones. If we would obtain an idea of the probable development of mathematical knowledge in the immediate future, we must let the unsettled questions pass before our minds and look over the problems which the science of today sets and whose solution we expect from the future. To such a review of problems the present day, lying at the meeting of the centuries, seems to me well adapted. For the close of a great epoch not only invites us to look back into the past but also directs our thoughts to the unknown future.
“Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.”
Omne aevum curae; cunctis sua displicet aetas.
Ausonius (310–395) poet
Eclogae 2, line 10; translation from Hugh Gerard Evelyn White Ausonius ([1919-21] 1951) vol. 1, p. 165.
Edith Stein (1891–1942) Jewish-German nun, theologian and philosopher
Essays on Woman (1996), The Ethos of Woman's Professions (1930)
Newton Lee American computer scientist
Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014
“Every age has its happiness and troubles.”
Jeanne Calment (1875–1934) French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human life span in history
Source: Jeanne Calment: From Van Gogh's Time to Ours : 122 Extraordinary Years, 1998, p. 48: response to the question whether the birth of her daughter was the happiest time of her life