Ancients Quote by Francis Bacon

“If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then the Ancients…

— Vitruvius

“In general, things that were endowed with life did not, like the Golden Temple, have the rigid quality of existing once and for all.…

— Yukio Mishima

“It is also more than likely that women invented that most fundamental of all material technologies, without which civilization could not have evolved: the…

— Riane Eisler

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

— Blaise Pascal

If nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would have been…

— James Mill

“The supernatural presides over man's formation always. . . Life is that evidence of supernatural endowment which originally entered nature during the formation of…

— Pauline Hopkins

Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder

— John F. Kennedy

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

MAN is a social animal, gregarious by nature, and finds his greatest sense of security and satisfaction in the company of others who share…

— Billy Graham

The sum total of each man's giving determines the standard of man's civilization.

— Walter Russell