"And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For……" — Clement of Alexandria
"And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'"
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34 Quotes by Clement of Alexandria
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The Lord ate from a common bowl, and asked the disciples to sit on the grass. He washed their feet,…
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Prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a strong and tranquil soul.
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For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image…
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But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious…
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The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker…
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He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of…
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Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material,…
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The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.
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It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.
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When you see your brother, you see God.
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Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice…
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All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always…
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More Attic Quotes
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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.
— Stephen King
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I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail…
— Ann Hood
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The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past.…
— Ernest Lawrence
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While I was there, I was just gathering images and names, and ideas and rhythms, and I was storing all…
— Robbie Robertson
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I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and…
— Laurence Olivier
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Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and…
— Barry Nelson
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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer
— Peter Ustinov
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At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She…
— Erica Jong
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My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and…
— Michel Gondry
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A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some…
— Paul Muni
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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