I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.
Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.
When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and it does date back to this nineteenth century idea that teaching is a form of mothering.
Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.
The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.
If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century we have seen a convergence of the arrows of explanation, like the convergence of meridians toward the North Pole.
There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, and what comes after that.
Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century.
In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century could say without exaggeration, "Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years. " Asked how he had done all this in the six or seven years of his working life, Abel replied, "By studying the masters, not the pupils. "
There has never been a century that has not had a systemic war - a systemic war, meaning when the entire system convulses. From the Seven Years' War in Europe to the Napoleonic Wars of the 19th century to the World Wars, every century has one.
A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.
The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence.
Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.
This is the century of fear.
Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.
I am a person of the 18th century.
After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.