"I have often said that just as the……" — Ian Hamilton Finlay
"I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time."
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21 Quotes by Ian Hamilton Finlay
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I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked…
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My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world…
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think…
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.
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The present order is the disorder of the future.
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People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand…
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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really…
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As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I…
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But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what…
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More Antiquity Quotes
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one of 126 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
— Joseph Addison
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and…
— James Buchan
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The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
— Ben Jonson
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Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the…
— Unknown Author
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If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of…
— John Ruskin
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In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough…
— Janet Morris
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History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still,…
— Unknown Author
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With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting…
— William Buckland
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Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of…
— Confucius
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