An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Interspirituality is the world music of religion; borrowing, fusing, blending and bouncing rhythms and riffs off one another not to create a… — Rami M. Shapiro Copy Share Image
What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
That which works is authentic. It's a practical truth. What really matters is that we find benefit, regardless of whether it's an… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
We're animals, I think we forget that. I think there is an ancient archetypal memory that still exists within us. If we… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Wherever we look in the ancient world the past has been controlled, but nowhere more rigorously than in the history of the… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The candle glimmers but an hour. The night Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know The tragedy of human love and… — George Sterling Copy Share Image
Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met… — Fei Fei Sun Copy Share Image
The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Otter is the most brilliant mix of facts ancient and modern about the otter species and its vulnerability to man's seemingly insatiable… — Virginia McKenna Copy Share Image
The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and… — Oscar Straus Copy Share Image
It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering… — Charles Godfrey Leland Copy Share Image
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
To me, the circle and the square where the sky and the earth, as symbolized by the ancient Oriental religions; they formed… — Michel Seuphor Copy Share Image
