MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks,… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
When I teach a new group of students, I introduce some yoga philosophy, but I don't overload them with information. Just enough… — James Fox Copy Share Image
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He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
I think that we are passionate creatures who really live our fullest life when we are deeply engaged, when we feel successes,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Kafka's writings often display an insidious power to describe a wholly secular and "factical" world in which the eerie or "unheimlich" elements… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The Ancient Romans did not regard acts of genius to emanate from within an individual - but rather saw it as a… — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
The Dreyfus Affair is an exceptional case. It's true that here and there you can find some dregs of anti-Semitism, but the… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural,… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, half the boats were lost in a great storm at sea, and many members of the six boats that did make… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Shankara commented on Krishna, on the Upanishads, on the Brahma Sutras. Ramanuja commented on the ancient enlightened people, Vallabha did the same.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
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Ancient one sleeping, waiting to rise When earth's power bleeds sacred red The mark strikes true; Queen Tsi Sgili will devise He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Are we lost, or are we found at last? On earth we strive for our various needs, because so goes the fundamental… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
There are many graphic artists who have interpreted The Ancient One as a Tibetan Buddhist Lama, we're kind of shifting that a… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
What's amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus' wife,… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties… — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
My parents were only one part of my lineage. I also met a number of mentors, one of whom I nicknamed "Socrates"… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Your God still walks in Eden, between the ancient trees, Where Youth and Love go wading through pools of primroses. And this… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
“There was a time in the ancient world - a very long time - in which the central cultural problem must have… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
He raised an eyebrow. "You claim not to know me? Of course I'm Thoth. Also called Djehuti. Also called--" I [Sadie] stifled… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The stranger in ancient Israel did not serve as a judge, although he received all the benefits of living in the land.… — Gary North Copy Share Image
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Beliefs create behaviors, and the dysfunctional behaviors of the human race, observable everywhere every day, are the product of our non-workable beliefs.… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“Everything we know and believe about deity and divinity nowadays, is a direct origin of old civilizations. Everybody, Greeks, Saxons, Assyrians and… — Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis Copy Share Image
A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
![“He raised an eyebrow. "You claim not to know me? Of course I'm Thoth. Also called Djehuti. Also called--" I [Sadie] stifled a laugh. "Ja-hooty?" Thoth looked offended. "In Ancient Egyptian, it's a perfectly fine name. The Greeks called me Thoth. Then later they confused me with their god Hermes…” quote by Rick Riordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c24/rick-riordan-27_ancient_he-raised-an-eyebrow-you-claim-not-to-kn_920805.jpg)
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