Ancient egyptian Quote by Patrick Auerbach

“the one thing to which the human spirit could always accommodate itself was chaos and misfortune.”

— Paul Scott

“Still, whencesoever derived, the Egyptian people, as it existed in the flourishing time of Egyptian history, was beyond all question a mixed race, showing…

— George Rawlinson

“Because the Egyptians had no feeling that events of the moment were transitory, they viewed the present as eternal. The world was static; what…

— Norman F. Cantor

“Had anyone suggested at the time that it would not be the Egypt of the pharaohs that would survive and change the moral landscape…

— Sheila Heti

“The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed…

— Aldous Huxley

“The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.”

— Herman Melville

“There was a sense of permanence about Egypt; the past was never far from the present.”

— McKay

“The ineffable talent for finding patterns in chaos cannot do its thing unless he immerses himself in the chaos first.”

— Neal Stephenson

“Maybe there was a very good reason for the primal terror that lies in every human heart, a forgotten understanding that there are some…

— Eyre Price

“The Dream of Egypt was Eternity: her odors have the solidity of granite, and endure as long. I”

— Leslie S. Klinger

“Customs of the Egyptians.       Chapter I. Concerning The Kings And”

— Charles Rollin

“Confronting the power of Egypt’s magicians and priests with the power of the Almighty, making a parody of the authority of Pharaoh by means…

— Sandra L. Richter