Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
When I first decided to be a writer, that meant dealing with preoccupations and concerns that took little account of Indian traditions.… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“There is a place at the centre of the World, between the zones of earth, sea, and sky, at the boundary of… — Ovid Copy Share Image
How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally,… — Vincent of Lerins Copy Share Image
It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Teach nothing new, but instill into all men's breasts those things which the Fathers of revered memory have with harmony of statement… — Pope Leo I 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
The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this… — Henri Pirenne Copy Share Image
“Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we… — Proclus Copy Share Image
The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“Across the distance, the Acropolis museum cradled within its protective walls its legendary treasures, lulling them to a peaceful sleep under the… — Effrosyni Moschoudi Copy Share Image
Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak… — Girolamo Savonarola Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
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