Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by… — David Hume Copy Share Image
All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous.… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“This is how the wild calls you: in an impulsive moment of joy, in a timeless connection to awe, in a rebellious… — Kris Franken Copy Share Image
The practice of meditation is an ancient practice. It's been practiced in many lands, for many lifetimes. You may have practiced it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“Central to all these interlinked themes was that curious irrational, phi, the Golden Section. Schwaller de Lubicz believed that if ancient Egypt… — John Anthony West Copy Share Image
Well-referenced, with numerous quotations from renowned Egyptologists and classical scholars, Acharya's penetrating research clearly lays out the very ancient pre-Christian basis of… — Robert M. Schoch Copy Share Image
“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
We're coming into a rebirth of the planet. And some cultures have echoed it, such as the Mayans have echoed that, and… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one.… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story:… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“All of Nature follows perfectly geometric laws. The Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Peruvian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures were well aware of this, as… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
In ancient African cultures, a young man was not considered a full member of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn't… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
We use and need to use both systems in complex political societies, and we oscillate in our commitments, because both oligarchy and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness. For our family, ourselves, and friends, It is but sad Decay, so, Let every… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
You go back and look at some of the ancient writings that exist throughout the world about wars and it's the same;… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such… — Jeremy Bolt Copy Share Image
During the age Atlantis, there were only several hundred thousand people living on our planet. They lived in a sublime state of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for… — Budd Schulberg Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the most ancient forms of prayer. To write is to believe communication is possible that other people are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face,… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
İstanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly the most… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
