Ancient Quotes - Page 2

• The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

  Amar Bose

  Mother, Father, Philosophy

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• Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

  Angela Carter

  Dream, Dark, Greek

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• 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.

  Nick Nolte

  Past, Brain, Survival

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• Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

  Warren E. Burger

  Blood, Battle, Trials

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• A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Moon, Men, Looks

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

  Johannes Stark

  Greek, Mind, Composition

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

  Evan Sayet

  Worry, Care, Miami

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• 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.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Thinking, Rome, Would Be

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• Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

  Lillian Smith

  Men, Years, Giving

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• Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

  Voltaire

  Society, World

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.1636, e-artnow

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• 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.

  Anita Brookner

  God, Winning, Favors

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

  Ovid

  Drinking, Paganism, Praise

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• The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, - the floating bulwark of our island.

  William Blackstone

  Strength, Islands, Royal Wedding

  Commentaries on the Laws of England bk. 1, ch. 13 (1765)

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

  James Henry Breasted

  Men, Firsts, He Man

  James Henry Breasted (1933). “The Oriental Institute”

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• The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Happiness, Men, Joy

  The House of the Seven Gables ch. 20 (1851)

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• One service to need heals an ancient wound.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Sleep, Needs, Heal

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• Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

  Francis Picabia

  Knowledge, Errors, Youth

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• In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

  Carol P. Christ

  Art, Discovery, Europe

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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!

  Edmund Husserl

  Perfection, Habit, Natural

  Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Science, Fit, Mythology

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• Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

  Arthur Keith

  Christian, Universalism, Ideals

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

  Carol P. Christ

  Europe, Diversity, Unity

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

  Joseph Brodsky

  Language, States, Inevitable

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• Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Song, Simple, Singing

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• An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Mad, Firsts, Zeus

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