The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so… — Amar Bose Copy Share Image
As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I belong to an ancient, idle, wild and useless tribe, perhaps I am even one of the last members of it, who… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Briefly, the nymphaeum glowed with a softer light, like a full moon. Piper smelled exotic spices and blooming roses. She heard distant… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast,… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but… — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
While it may be impossible to 'disprove' the existence of some 'Higher Power' or abstract Creator, it is entirely possible — through… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Seventy-two virgins - does that make sense to anyone? And it's an ancient religion, maybe it was misinterpreted? Maybe it's not 72… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity." — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The cold stars spun to the ancient rhythm, the august march of an everlasting symphony. They are old, the stars, and their… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, "Thus far and… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The ancient sages never put their teachings in systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech,… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“If you follow the ancient maps written on the stars, no person will ever understand you. So if you could read these… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Many people say I believe aliens built the pyramids. I don't. In fact I'm not a supporter of the 'ancient alien' hypothesis… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Every age probably regards itself as unique in its sexual sophistication, and if we take Ovid as a typical spokesman we should… — Rolfe Humphries Copy Share Image
Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“-flashed Langdon the thumbs-up sign. Langdon smiled weakly and returned the gesture, wondering if she knew it was the ancient phallic symbol… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death -… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
