The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.
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