Ancient Quotes

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

These ancient huts were soon cleared of the rubbish covering them. I planned them, and removed them for investigation below, which undertaking took until the fourth of Nov.

The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

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

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

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

I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

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

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

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

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