Ancients Quotes

103 quotes by 84 authors

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. — Voltaire
No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone's path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I… — Octavio Paz
Ghost Dog: In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being… — Jim Jarmusch
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act… — Frank Herbert
When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on… — Niccolo Machiavelli
In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow… — William P. Young
Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise… — Hermann Hesse
He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always shared one thing.… — Dan Brown
The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so… — Jeanette Winterson
The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of… — Dan Brown
The ancients were afraid that if they went to the end of the earth they would fall off and be consumed by dragons. But once… — Francis Schaeffer
Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was… — Dante Alighieri
It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of… — Albert Pike
Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves that have been… — Anna Halprin
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my… — F. Sionil Jose
Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by… — John Updike

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