Ancient Quotes - Page 40

• It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.

  Joseph Addison

  Queens, Taken, Letters

  'The Spectator' no. 221, 13 November 1711.

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• MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fighting, Evil, Doctrine

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.162, University of Georgia Press

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• One can take eternity and time to be predicates of God since, being the Ancient of Days, He is the cause of all time and eternity. Yet He is before time and beyond time and is the source of the variety of time and of the seasons. Or again, He precedes the eternal ages, for He is there before eternity and above eternity, and 'His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom' (Ps. 145:13). Amen.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Age, Kingdoms

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• This great circle of sisters will be a protection for each of you and for your families. The Relief Society might be likened to a refuge- the place of safety and protection- the sanctuary of ancient times. You will be safe within it. It encircles each sister like a protecting wall.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Wall, Circles, Safety

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• It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning , witchcraft and sacerdotalism.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Race, Years

  H. L. Mencken (2003). “The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.57, See Sharp Press

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

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Enmity, Helping, Daily Life

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• The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.

  John Calvin

  Practice, Church, Immersion

  "Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French".

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• Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul. In ancient times, purposeful solitude was both palliative and preventative. It was used to heal fatigue and to prevent weariness. It was also used as an oracle, as a way of listening to the inner self to solicit advice and guidance otherwise impossible to hear in the din of daily life.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Believe, Self, Advice

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• This ancient practice of the Rudrabhishekam, with the chanting of mantras, has been happening since thousands of years. It creates such a deep resonance in our consciousness, because our consciousness is very ancient

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Years, Practice, Consciousness

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• Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past,
  given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest.

  Robert Holdstock

  Memories, Past, New Life

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• There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Surnames

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• Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.

  Julian Jaynes

  Giving, Use, Coins

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world these were privileges that belonged to any slave.

  Mark Mirabello

  Suggestions, Complaining, Citizens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems to have remained a secret.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Keys, Secret

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.51, New World Library

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• Never allow the cross to lose it’s centrality to the ministry of your church. I believe we ought to connect ancient truth to contemporary questions, but the ultimate source of hope for every problem we face in our lives is the cross where Jesus died.

  Brandon Cox

  Jesus, Believe, Church

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• May Peace reign in all hearts. Let us not forget that Peace is Light; let us not forget that Peace is an essence which emanates from the Absolute. It is Light which emanates from the Absolute. It is the Light of the Ancient of Days. Christ said: “MY PEACE I GIVE YOU, MY PEACE I LEAVE YOU”.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Heart, Light, Essence

  "The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of the Tarot and Kabalah". Bilingual,

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• There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it has lost,' in this case 'heart' means 'ego,' 'when the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit rejoices for what it has found.'

  Eckhart Tolle

  Heart, Mean, Ego

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• The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think. And that language is a trap, that a dark evolutionary force has created languages to limit human thought. That writers are overrated fools. That all religions come from ancient comic writers. And the ultimate goal of comics is same as the purpose of humanity – to break free from language.

  Manu Joseph

  Dark, Thinking, People

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• What is called generosity is really compassion. In the Shin'ei it is written "Seen from the eye of compassion, there is noone to be disliked. One who has sinned is to be pitied all the more." There is no limit to the breadth and depth of ones heart. There is room enough for all. That we still worship the sages of the three ancient kingdoms is because their compassion reaches us yet today.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Eye, Heart, Compassion

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• What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Animal, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.484, Delphi Classics

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• In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!

  Laozi

  Moving, Knowledge, People

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• Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth.

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Law

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• I have always been spurred on by my not finding expressed anywhere the kinds of perspectives that I thought these issues most perspicuously needed and deserved; but that is just another way of saying that Americans have overwhelmingly expunged from their public understanding the strongest and most clarifying resources out of ancient and traditional European cultures. By far we prefer our familiar and user-friendly parochialisms, and there is no percentage in trying to pry these pachydermal plates apart.

  Kenny Smith

  Issues, Perspective, Understanding

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• Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that explain nothing are not welcome... Note how science changed those beliefs when new data became available. Religions stick to the same ancient beliefs regardless of the data.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Data, Religion, Alternatives

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• We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

  Winston Churchill

  Summer, War, Ocean

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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