Ancient Quotes
1413 quotes by 1041 authors
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very…
— Hannah Arendt
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
— Margaret Atwood
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
— Saint Augustine
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets…
— Diane Ackerman
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in…
— Enid Bagnold
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of…
— Andrew Bernstein
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it…
— Wendell Berry
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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give…
— Annie Besant
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten.…
— Annie Besant
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
— Ambrose Bierce
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There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
— Cate Blanchett
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Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole…
— David Bohm
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A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
— Ray Bradbury
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There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.
— Rita Mae Brown
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A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the…
— George H. W. Bush
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It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by…
— Christopher Alexander
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
— Samuel Butler
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