To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel… — William E. Conway, Jr Copy Share Image
The Mapuche are our indigenous people from the south, the Patagonia. They are a vey wise and luminous ancient cavitation, which is… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
In looking at these pots at the Field Museum, Alix [MacKenzie] and I both came to a conclusion individually but also collectively… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I used to think I preferred getting old to the alternative, but now I'm not sure. Sometimes the momotony of bingo and… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
I judge wisely...as if nothin ever surprise me, Loungin, between two pillars of ivory. I'm lively, my dome piece is like buildin… — Killah Priest Copy Share Image
Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important. — George Ellwanger Copy Share Image
Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In practice it is possible to determine directly the skin colour and hence the ethnic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians by microscopic… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
What is called generosity is really compassion. In the Shin'ei it is written "Seen from the eye of compassion, there is noone… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
We use and need to use both systems in complex political societies, and we oscillate in our commitments, because both oligarchy and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . .… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Your touch has still its ancient power, No word from You can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in… — Henry Twells Copy Share Image
I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
