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Anachronism Quotes

Minnie Maddern Fiske quote: "This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the..."
This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism. Minnie Maddern Fiske
Oscar Wilde quote: "The ages live in history through their anachronisms."
The ages live in history through their anachronisms. Oscar Wilde
The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation, from Spartacus to Danton and Dostoevsky; they are the classical form of betrayal of the cause. The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. As long as chaos dominates the world, God is an anachronism; and every compromise with one’s own conscience is perfidy. When the accursed inner voice speaks to... Arthur Koestler
What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is set, and which serves to strip us of any possible faith in the permanence of our labours. Our ancestors could believe that their achievements had a chance of bearing up against the flow of events. We know time to be a hurricane. Our buildings, our sense of style, our ideas, all of these will soon enough be anachronisms, and the machines... Alain de Botton
Albert Camus quote: "The anachronism is the worst thing to use at the theatre."
The anachronism is the worst thing to use at the theatre. Albert Camus
Modern formulations are necessary even in defense of very ancient truths. Not because of any alleged anachronism in the old ideas? the Beatitudes remain the essential statements of the Western code? but because the idiom of life is always changing William F. Buckley, Jr.
What? We feel aesthetic pleasure at a sonata by Beethoven and not at one with the same style and charm if it comes from one of our own contemporaries? Isn't that the height of hypocrisy? So then the sensation of beauty is not spontaneous, spurred by our sensibility, but instead is cerebral, conditioned by our knowing a date? No way around it: historical consciousness is so thoroughly inherent in our perception of art that this anachronism (a Beethoven piece written today) would be... Milan Kundera
Andy Warhol quote: "When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is..."
When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant. Andy Warhol
The tendency of mechanical progress is to make your environment safe and soft; and yet you are striving to keep yourself brave and hard...So in the last analysis the champion of progress is also the champion of anachronisms. George Orwell
Lady," we always call each other, partly a joke, partly in earnest, using still the old word, in its full flavor a kind of exorcism against "saleslady," "old lady," "ladylike." Relishing the anachronism, even the formality a type of aphrodisiac, a contrast to our delight in the horny, the vulgar, the vernacular which we cultivate just as ardently. Kate Millett
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms"
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms Jorge Luis Borges
Minnie Driver quote: "You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism,..."
You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition. Minnie Driver

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