“The truly golden age of the people does not lie in the past, but in the future.”
D. N. Jha (1940) Indian historian
quoted from Arun Shourie (2014) Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud. HarperCollin
Lyrics, Rattle And Hum(1988)
Context: Don't believe in the 60's, the Golden age of Pop. You glorify the past, when the Future dries up
"God Part II
“The truly golden age of the people does not lie in the past, but in the future.”
D. N. Jha (1940) Indian historian
quoted from Arun Shourie (2014) Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud. HarperCollin
“People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future.”
Robyn Donald (1940) New Zealand writer
Source: Tiger, Tiger
“Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.”
Hayao Miyazaki (1941) Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright
Der Dichter, 1910. Alle Verk, x. 11; S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 310.
“I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.”
Novalis (1772–1801) German poet and writer
As quoted in Romantic Vision, Ethical Context: Novalis and Artistic Autonomy (1987) by Géza von Molnár, p. 2
Context: I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance
Throughout my being's limitless expanse,
Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages
I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.
“Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
“The golden age of mathematics - that was not the age of Euclid, it is ours.”
Cassius Jackson Keyser (1862–1947) American mathematician and journalist of pronounced philosophical inclinations
Source: The Human Worth of Rigorous Thinking: Essays and Addresses, p. 268