“Since antiquity, men have defined themselves by those who are excluded.” — Jim Robinson Copy Share Image
In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity. — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit. — John Zimmerman Copy Share Image
“IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE” — Charleston Parker Copy Share Image
The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter. — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us. — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity. — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor,… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally,… — Vincent of Lerins Copy Share Image
Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“[O]ver the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“The ascetic planet he sights is the planet of the practising as a whole, the planet of advanced-civilized humans, the planet of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“I was particularly impressed by the varying degrees of weathering and erosion seen on the different moai, which could be telltale signs… — Robert M. Schoch Copy Share Image
“ Robert Ingersoll 's character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be... none… — Charles Spalding Thomas Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“The extension of the moral-historical perspective makes the meaning of the thesis of the athletic and somatic renaissance apparent. At the transition… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“His concept of allochrony - initially introduced shyly as 'untimeliness', then later radicalized to an exit from modernity - is based on… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“There is a place at the centre of the World, between the zones of earth, sea, and sky, at the boundary of… — Ovid Copy Share Image