For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre. — Theodora 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 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
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from… — Paul Lafargue 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
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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
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
Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity. — Basil Bunting 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
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
Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods. — David Sylvester 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
In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience,… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power. — Casey Miller 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
The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race. — H. P. Blavatsky 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
