To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe" tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power. — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and… — William Jones Copy Share Image
Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak… — Girolamo Savonarola Copy Share Image
The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
“Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.” — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven! — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all. — Laozi Copy Share Image
