Antiquity Quotes

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Antiquity is the aristocracy of history

— Alexandre Dumas Père

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

— John Zimmerman

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

— Voltaire

“Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity.”

— Voltaire

The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity .

— Karl Marx

“Since antiquity, men have defined themselves by those who are excluded.”

— Jim Robinson

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

— Marshall McLuhan

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also…

— Pope Leo XIII

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

— Joseph Glanvill

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

— John Ruskin

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

— Desiderius Erasmus

Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank.

— Allen Tate

“Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.”

— Ben Jonson

From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.

— Casey Miller

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are…

— Mikhail Bakunin

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

“The study of the cultures of antiquity in general, and of ancient Egypt in particular, can serve to guide us out of…

— Jeremy Nadler

The synagogues of late antiquity and the early medieval period were built around imagery: imagery of remembering the Temple, but also of…

— Simon Schama

The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and…

— Thomas Paine

The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order…

— Helen Keller

As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which…

— Edward Gibbon

I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and…

— Frederick The Great

The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in…

— Marsilio Ficino

We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things; they cannot be grasped with the hands…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and…

— Francis Bacon

It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of…

— Desiderius Erasmus

Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,…

— Richard Armour

No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided…

— Svante Arrhenius

That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a…

— Ben Jonson

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their…

— William Harvey

“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

“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

“ Robert Ingersoll 's character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be... none…

— Charles Spalding Thomas

“[O]ver the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity…

— Donald Hall

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

“There is a place at the centre of the World, between the zones of earth, sea, and sky, at the boundary of…

— Ovid

“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

“His concept of allochrony - initially introduced shyly as 'untimeliness', then later radicalized to an exit from modernity - is based on…

— Peter Sloterdijk