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
Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
Women have been doing very, very strange things for centuries. I mean ancient Egyptians were already doing that, but I don't necessarily… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you… — Saint Augustine 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
Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they… — Horace Binney Wallace Copy Share Image
Combining these two ancient teachings (yoga and vipassana) in a seamless manner, which will bring maximum benefits to the meditators, is not… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey.… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Another form of prayer, called cataphatic, honors and reverences images and feelings and goes through them to God. This form of prayer… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Who knows for certain? Who shall here declare it? Whence was it born, whence came creation? The gods are later than this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Sacred scripture is of course the basic authority for everything; yet I sometimes run across ancient sayings or pagan writings - even… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The labyrinth of Ephebe is ancient and full of one hundred and one amazing things you can do with hidden springs, razor-sharp… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant… — William Blake Copy Share Image
It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development… — Ivor Grattan-Guinness Copy Share Image
The old Atlantean sciences from the tribe of enlightenment, of which there are only a few remnants and chards left in this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught,… — Olympia Brown Copy Share Image
It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
As a child I became a confirmed believer in the ancient gods simply because as between the reality of fact and the… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“THE ANCIENT ROMANS were used to being defeated. Like the rulers of most of history’s great empires, they could lose battle after… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's… — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The battle between server and servee is as ancient as it is well disguised, and it follows, therefore, that waiters have developed… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it;… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan… — Edward Leedskalnin Copy Share Image
But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image