The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor,… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity. — Oleg Cassini Copy Share Image
Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“Educated and ambitious, with their own forthright opinions, the women of the Garvey set did more to determine political direction than many… — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets… — John H. Vandenberg Copy Share Image
The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The phrase "the violent bear it away" fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE” — Charleston Parker Copy Share Image
The synagogues of late antiquity and the early medieval period were built around imagery: imagery of remembering the Temple, but also of… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
This siren, this goat-footed bard, this half human visitor to our age the hag-ridden and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity. One catches… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
