Antiquity Quotes - Page 6

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus

Happiness, Moving On, Attitude

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A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

Thomas Fuller

Men, Skills, Littles

Thomas Fuller (1840). “The Holy State and the Profane State”, p.54

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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

William Hazlitt

Pride, Names, Looks

William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.139

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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

John Milton

Character, Past, Men

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Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.

Marilynne Robinson

Philosophy, Book, Eye

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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thank You, Time, Children

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Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Brotherhood, Church, Doe

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Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

Carl Jung

Astrology, Psychology, Recognition

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.  

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memories, Reality, History

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To learn is to be young, however old.

Aeschylus

Thought Provoking, Young, Be Young

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

Inspirational, Basketball, Time

Theophrastus (1904). “The characters of Theophrastus”

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On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

James F. Cooper

Time, Long, Imagination

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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, Past, Looks

Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

Leigh Hunt

Morning, Food, World

Leigh Hunt (1840). “The Seer: Or, Common-places Refreshed”, p.27

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Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it.

Nicholas Hawksmoor

History, Destruction, Advantage

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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good Morning, Nature, Flower

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.299, University of Georgia Press

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To find yourself, think for yourself.

Socrates

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.

Charles Lyell

Men, Discovery, Caves

Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.49, Cosimo, Inc.

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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

Francois Rabelais

Wise, Foolish, Made

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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

Victor Hugo

Buddhism, Men, Glimpse

Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Teacher, Stars, Community

"Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey/ Standing Up in the Milky Way". Documentary, March 9, 2014.

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Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Our World, Different, Earth

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No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Country, Writing, Simple

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1983). “Novels”, p.854, Library of America

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The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Earth, Geology, Archaeologists

Bal Gangadhar Tilak (2011). “The Arctic Home in the Vedas”, p.21, Arktos

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We learn not in the school, but in life.

Seneca the Younger

Life, Learning, School

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