
Source: The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795–1822), Ch. III.
Notes to his mother, on The Life of Humanity (1884-6) http://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/humanity-the-golden-age-depicting-three-scenes-from-the-lives-of-adam-and-eve-the-silver-age-1886, his composition of a ten image polyptych, p. 48 · Photo of its exhibition on the 3rd Floor of Musée National Gustave Moreau http://en.musee-moreau.fr/house-museum/studios/third-floor
Gustave Moreau (1972)
Source: The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795–1822), Ch. III.
Variants: Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiorities, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
Original version: L'aristocratie a trois âges successifs : l'âge des supériorités, l'âge des privilèges, l'âge des vanités ; sortie du premier, elle dégènère dans le second et s'éteint dans le dernier.
Book I, Ch. 1 : The Vallé-aux-loups
Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1848 – 1850)
“The golden age of mathematics - that was not the age of Euclid, it is ours.”
Source: The Human Worth of Rigorous Thinking: Essays and Addresses, p. 268
“Since the age of three I have refused God nothing.”
Conseils et Souvenirs, 266 speaking on her deathbed.
Source: The Philosopher's Apprentice (2008), Chapter 16 (p. 366)
The Social History of Art, Volume I. From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages, 1999, Chapter IV. The Middle Ages
Source: 1930s, The conflict between Aristotelian and Galileian modes of thought in contemporary psychology, 1931, p. 153 as cited in: Eells, T. D. (2007). " Generating and generalizing knowledge about psychotherapy from pragmatic case studies http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/journals/index.php/pcsp/article/viewFile/893/2263". In: Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Vol 3, Nr. 1, p. 35-54.
“Where children are, there is a golden age.”
Fragment No. 97
Blüthenstaub (1798)
“Reality is never a golden age.”
Source: Economic Heresies (1971), Chapter III, Interest and Profit, p. 47