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In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

In ancient times they sacrificed the virgins. Men were not about to sacrifice the sluts!

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.

In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

In their meditations, the high priests and priestesses of Atlantis had seen that the Atlantean civilization was going to end cataclysmically.

In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night-- the restrictions, rules, and guidelines-- was born of an ancient fervor. Every rule ever established, from the beginning of time, invited mutiny.

Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such an advanced society.

I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born.

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least some form of art is displayed, and not only displayed, but highly regarded and willingly engaged in.

In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.

It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.

It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.

It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with it on some level.

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

It's starting to catch hold, and in large measure it's because we're starting to understand that much of what we have talked about in ancient mythology and mystical experience and so forth can pretty well be modeled within the world of quantum physics. That's a 20th century phenomenon also.

It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

I would tell you that for me the sanctity of life proceeds out of the belief that ancient principle that - where God says before you were formed in the womb, I knew you, and so for my first time in public life, I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

Jews don't care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami.

I've just always been a coin collector, ever since my grandfather had some ancient coins that he passed down to me, it's just always been something. I love collecting coins from around the world in my travels but I they don't really do anything useful anymore, I guess.

Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America.

Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and have called out, and have shattered my deafness. You have blazed forth with light and have put my blindness to flight! You have sent forth fragrance, and I have drawn in my breath, and I pant after you. I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst after you. You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Karachi captures all of those rifts between ancient and modern, communal and individual. You see them playing out in people's lives.

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new.

Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Leonardo da Vinci did not take received wisdom - whether from ancient classical thinkers or medieval scholars or from the Bible - without questioning it. And this was the beginning of the scientific method. This is another lesson for our time: that when we have evidence that contradicts a certain belief, we should be willing to change it. I think this made Leonardo, in some ways, a person who better understood the beauty of God's creation than a person who just takes all received wisdom from the Bible on faith.

Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.

Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists.

My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited and we were excited.

Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.

My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?

my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender