In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try…

Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.

— John Berger

In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is…

— Thomas Paine

In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!

— Laozi

Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

— Stephen Leacock

The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new world with…

— Hannah Arendt

Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time…

— Jason Epstein

As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in…

— Sigmund Freud

Engaging the body in acts of being present with God, including certain ceremonial practices, opens us up to God in new ways. People of…

— Doug Pagitt

Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to…

— L. Neil Smith

“In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in…

— Chaim Potok

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or…

— John Ortberg

Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems…

— Eckhart Tolle

In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,…

— Confucius