“To make the ancients speak, we must feed them with our own blood.” — von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff Copy Share Image
When one does something, one must go back to the ancients. — Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre Copy Share Image
We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“When the ancients experienced gaps in their understanding of the world around them, they filled those gaps with God.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything. — Pierre de Fermat Copy Share Image
“Jane Greyson had once told me that my voice was one of the Ancients—old and wise.” — Millicent Ashby Copy Share Image
“The ancients placed love and war in the hands of closely related gods.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we can start counting those kisses once more. I think you owe me a few.” — Jean M. Grant Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“The ancients were subtle, mysterious, profound, responsive. The depth of their knowledge is unfathomable. Because it is unfathomable, All we can do… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Within this Mine two Stones of old were found, Were this the Ancients called Holy Ground; Who knew their Value, Power and… — Michael van der Gucht Copy Share Image
The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we are passing through an age of democratisation in art, while awaiting the rise of some princely master who shall establish… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak… — Girolamo Savonarola Copy Share Image
The ancients could communicate with the gods in two ways. First, it was (and is) possible to go into a trance and… — Rachel Pollack Copy Share Image
“Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Glen Shiel, Socttish Highlands, 1296 Strife abounds. King Edward of England has invaded the southern strongholds of Scotland and is pressuring King… — Jean M. Grant Copy Share Image
“She clambered to the shoreline. Numb and shaken, she began to dress. It wasn’t easy as she fumbled with slick fingers to… — Jean M. Grant Copy Share Image
“It was badly received by the generation to which it was first addressed, and the outpouring of angry nonsense to which it… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans of the Christian system may… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The scene unfolded before him as though he were a ghost. His mother stood on the raised stump, her body tied to… — Jean M. Grant Copy Share Image
“Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite other examples—a fragment of an ancient statue… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
