Classics Quote by Mary Beard

“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

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

— Roberta Pearce

“The trouble with ancient history is that, as far as I can tell, the vast majority of it took place a hell of a…

— John Powell

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

“Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity.”

— Voltaire

The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

— Moliere

Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous…

— Henry David Thoreau

“All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.”

— Voltaire

The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought

— Bernard Bailyn

Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.

— Magnus Carlsen

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.

— Blaise Pascal

“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that…

— Milan Kundera