I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town…

The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be…

— Helen Keller

Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given…

— Carl Jung

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in…

— Norman F. Cantor

What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs…

— Edward Everett

“Since antiquity, men have defined themselves by those who are excluded.”

— Jim Robinson

While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes…

— Benjamin Rush

In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns…

— Luigi Russolo

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity…

— Anonymous

An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason,…

— David Hume

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of…

— Bayard Taylor

“Educated and ambitious, with their own forthright opinions, the women of the Garvey set did more to determine political direction than many councillors. Their…

— A. H. Septimius

Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors,…

— Richard Armour

Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.

— Sophie Swetchine