Differences Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

“The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument at the…

— Hannah Arendt

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

— William Penn

Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to…

— Mary Beard

“They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern. Well, okay . . . maybe medieval.”

— Roberta Pearce

“I am not averse to generalizing the notion of "modern" to designate a certain way of life, rather than making it purely a synonym…

— Paul Valéry

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.

— Blaise Pascal

Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the…

— George Scialabba

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

— Theodor Adorno

The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

— Moliere

Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the…

— Henry David Thoreau