Ancient Quote by Hannah Arendt

“Plato, in his famous fight against the ancient Sophists, discovered that their “universal art of enchanting the mind by arguments” (Phaedrus 261) had nothing…

— Hannah Arendt

The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Whether Hindus or Greeks, Egyptians or Japanese, Chinese, Sumerians, or ancient Americans -- or even Romans, the most "modern" among people of antiquity --…

— Savitri Devi

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

— Rene Descartes

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

— Lord Chesterfield

“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and…

— Novalis

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern. Well, okay . . . maybe medieval.”

— Roberta Pearce

“The moments of refinement conceal a death-principle: nothing is more fragile than subtlety. The abuse of it leads to the catechisms, an end to…

— Emil Cioran

“...most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their…

— Reza Aslan

“There was some kind of cultural cause for the decline of the ancient world. It was neither corruption of public spirit nor Christianity. It…

— Norman F. Cantor

“Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli