Ancient Quote by Jane Hirshfield

“Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it. —RAINER MARIA…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to…

— Edith Hall

We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love

— Anonymous

But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon…

— Mark Twain

“It's important that these people think of their adversaries specifically as assholes. That's what gives the modern rhetoric of polarization its singular stamp and…

— Geoffrey Nunberg

There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

— Livy

“Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.”

— Idries Shah

As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable “something else,” but now it was the opposite.…

— Laini Taylor

Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy,…

— Laozi