Best 393 quotes in «ancient quotes» category

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.

So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.

Spying has always gone on since ancient times.

Take her home. And-" "Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times," Myrnin said, much too sharply. "I'm ancient. I'm not deaf.

Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.

that's me. ancient history." [Poseidon to Paul]

That which works is authentic. It's a practical truth. What really matters is that we find benefit, regardless of whether it's an ancient traditional approach or some new version, popular or obscure.

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.

The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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

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

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 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 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 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.

The Kettlebell is an Ancient Russian Weapon Against Weakness

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

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

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.