Ancient Quote by Cate Blanchett

There are certain practices that may be historically acceptable to some people but that have no place in our culture.

— Damian Green

On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.

— Erich Fromm

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

— Lord Chesterfield

It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When one does something, one must go back to the ancients.

— Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre

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

Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often…

— J. C. Ryle

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

— Eleanora Duse

“ten ancient yet supremely effective rituals”

— Robin S. Sharma

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

— Anonymous

Activity that perishes, that is not productive of the eternal, of the lasting, is of very little use.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti