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
In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which… — Mark Rothko 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
“The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide.… — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
The importance of Plotinus is not only his own philosophical ideas which are quite interesting, but his historical impact as the founder… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately,… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
When I'm wandering around the Himalayas, most of the people that I see are Westerners from Germany, California, or the Netherlands, who… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own States into… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of… — James Madison 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
We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government;… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar:… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction… — Nicholas Hawksmoor Copy Share Image
Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical… — H. P. Lovecraft 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
For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
You can tell a horse owner by the interior of their car. Boots, mud, pony nuts, straw, items of tack and a… — Helen Thompson Woolley Copy Share Image
History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the… — Henry David Thoreau 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
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity,… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world,… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears… — Joseph Conrad 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
From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“At the same time, however, for antiquity the holiest sign of the presence of God, the cross, is the symbol of utter… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
