Past Centuries Quotes
13 quotes by 10 authors
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The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power…
— Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp
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Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try and revive the…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended…
— Freeman Dyson
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Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid,…
— Wendy Doniger
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It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target.…
— Nils-Axel Morner
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One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
— Rene Descartes
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I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy…
— Lech Walesa
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The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.
— David Rockefeller
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We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected…
— David Rockefeller
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The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay…
— Rene Descartes
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The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus…
— Howard Gardner
Who Wrote These Past Centuries Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 13 Past Centuries Quotes as follows: