Ancient Quotes - Page 2

The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.

Darwinism is a pagan religion whose roots go back to the Sumerians and Ancient Egypt.

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

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

Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence.

What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within ourselves? This is the ancient alchemical formula: "as above, so below, as within, so without."

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

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.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

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.

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

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

They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.

There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.

My responsibility is to save Tibet, to protect its ancient cultural heritage.

Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome.

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 vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.