From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power. — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
“Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.” — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven! — Giordano Bruno 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
If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness… — Anonymous 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
The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you:… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my… — Vera Nazarian 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
“According to the conclusion of Dr. Hutton, and of many other geologists, our continents are of definite antiquity, they have been peopled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith's revelations is not that they seem less reasonable than those of Moses; it… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
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
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and… — Francis Bacon 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
Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect. — Andrew Thomas Copy Share Image
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to… — William Hazlitt 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
With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity. — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became… — Edward Joseph Young Copy Share Image
I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity. — Oleg Cassini Copy Share Image
You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics? — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
