Sociology · Economic literatureIt will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability, and it should be a term that emphasizes this predictability. I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the conventional wisdom.John Kenneth GalbraithThe Affluent Society · 1958★ 4.4
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.Matthew ArnoldGod and the Bible · 1875★ 2.0
Historical literatureEvery intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.Walter Pater1873★ 1.9