In the ancient world physicians believed that the brain…

“When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear”

— S.F. Chandler

There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with them.I don't…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.

— Saint John Chrysostom

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian Time Lines…

— Tim LaHaye

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Let it simply be said that we know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of Jesus, in…

— Wilbur Smith

Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment, and in…

— Noel 'Razor' Smith

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded…

— Benjamin Disraeli

There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies…

— Slavoj Žižek

The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the…

— Rachel Carson

Astrology's roots lie in an ancient world-view which perceived the universe as a single living organism, animated by divine order and intelligence.

— Liz Greene

Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that…

— Carl Sagan

In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who can save…

— C. S. Lewis

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.

— William Whewell