Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods. — David Sylvester Copy Share Image
Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect. — Andrew Thomas Copy Share Image
In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity. — Mary Ritter Beard 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 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
Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre. — Theodora Copy Share Image
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to… — William Hazlitt 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
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
You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their… — Nicholas Meyer 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
Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have… — Janet Morris 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 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
The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the… — Samuel Johnson 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
Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and… — William Jones Copy Share Image
This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor,… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the… — Hermann Weyl 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
Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold… — Tacitus 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
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
“To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into… — John Warwick Montgomery 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
What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families… — Henry David Thoreau 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
The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by… — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
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