I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity. — Oleg Cassini Copy Share Image
Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became… — Edward Joseph Young Copy Share Image
In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics? — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In the highest antiquity, (the people) did not know that there were (their rulers).” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“The study of the cultures of antiquity in general, and of ancient Egypt in particular, can serve to guide us out of… — Jeremy Nadler Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
The synagogues of late antiquity and the early medieval period were built around imagery: imagery of remembering the Temple, but also of… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things; they cannot be grasped with the hands… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided… — Svante Arrhenius Copy Share Image
The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide.… — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
The importance of Plotinus is not only his own philosophical ideas which are quite interesting, but his historical impact as the founder… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately,… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction… — Nicholas Hawksmoor Copy Share Image
Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
