Best 393 quotes in «ancient quotes» category

The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it. It was a force for siding with the oppressed and a rebellion against hierarchical, ancient societies. Now it's institutionalized and all the life has been sucked out of it.

The bourgeois stands like a question mark, Speechless, like the hungry cur, The ancient world stands there behind him, A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.

The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd fat.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no one, except maybe a Cambridge or Oxford don, can call you out and prove you wrong.

The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought.

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom.

The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.

Their experiments caused them to destabilize the structure of the continent and thus Atlantis sank beneath the waves.

The Kettlebell is an Ancient Russian Weapon Against Weakness

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.

The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.

The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.

The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.

There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew).

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.

There is no new knowledge, all is ancient and infinite

There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing - ever more quickly - and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all.

There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We're a multi-bodied traveler. We're an essence. We're a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence.

There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.

The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor.

The rich are always enamored of the ancient.

The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations.

The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me.

The ways of the mind are ancient, but you are timeless