Ancient Quotes
1413 Ancient quotes by 1010 unique authors
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Blossom time has come and many ancient seekers are today getting their Self Realization.
— Nirmala Srivastava
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How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also…
— Carl Sagan
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All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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A little part of my life is built around ancient art.
— Michael Steinhardt
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Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making.
— Frans de Waal
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Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse…
— Frans de Waal
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The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.
— Frans Lanting
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
— Gary Wolf
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As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, mainly…
— Jill Tarter
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People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
— John McWhorter
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When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair blowing in their…
— Dylan Moran
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The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected the drawing-based Beaux-Arts…
— Martin Filler
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The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements,…
— Arne Glimcher
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Teeth actually turn out to be one of a couple of good sources of ancient DNA. The teeth, actually the enamel, is quite good at…
— Hendrik Poinar
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
— Maajid Nawaz
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I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning…
— Tim Blake Nelson
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I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything…
— Ashwin Sanghi
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Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and…
— Diane Ackerman
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Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space time, energy, information, and matter. Even though…
— Deepak Chopra
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