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
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. — Desiderius Erasmus 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
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it… — Francois Rabelais 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
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 ascetic planet he sights is the planet of the practising as a whole, the planet of advanced-civilized humans, the planet of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend. — John Tillotson 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
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
“The extension of the moral-historical perspective makes the meaning of the thesis of the athletic and somatic renaissance apparent. At the transition… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
If there were even one spark of evidence from antiquity that Jesus even may have gotten married, then as a historian, I… — Paul L. Maier 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
The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century… — Alfred de Musset 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
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
Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is… — Vincent of Lerins 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
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
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
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
“I was particularly impressed by the varying degrees of weathering and erosion seen on the different moai, which could be telltale signs… — Robert M. Schoch Copy Share Image
