„Nay, if there’s room for poets in the worldA little overgrown, (I think there is)Their sole work is to represent the age,Their age, not Charlemagne’s, — this live, throbbing age,That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires,And spends more passion, more heroic heat,Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms,Than Roland with his knights, at Roncesvalles.“

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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„Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so.“
— C.G. Jung
„At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.“
— Flannery O’Connor
„People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.“
— Pablo Picasso
„Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.“
— C.G. Jung