Antiquity Quote by Joseph Glanvill

How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others,…

— Thomas Paine

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

— Desiderius Erasmus

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

— Pierre Bayle

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

— Henry David Thoreau

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough…

— Thomas Paine

The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.

— H. P. Blavatsky

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

— Rene Descartes

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

— Giordano Bruno

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Blaise Pascal

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

— Voltaire