Anachronism Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Anachronism is not the inconsequential juxtaposition of epochs, but rather their inter-penetration, like the telescoping legs of a tripod, a series of tapering structures.…

— Elisabeth Lenk

“We honor the Greeks because in their art, literature, philosophy and civic history we discern the early stirrings of our own ideals—rationalism, humanism, democracy—which…

— Caroline Alexander

The E.U., its institutions, structure and ways of working are an anachronism.

— Priti Patel

“History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.”

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks?

— Jean-Baptiste Say

First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.

— Jean-Luc Godard

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote…

— Rita Mae Brown

“Greek culture owed tremendous debt to the Aegean ... This civilization had grown old, and passed away centuries before the period of Greek learning…

— James John Courtenay

“The ages live in history through their anachronisms.”

— Oscar Wilde

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

— Oliver Stone

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.

— Bertrand Russell