Ancient Quote by Peter York

In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rapidly becoming extinct in thename of human sensitivity and modernity are constantly fallingis necessary to save the character that we headed back to ancient…

— Mak_786

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“What finally turned me back toward the older traditions of my own [Chickasaw] and other Native peoples was the inhumanity of the Western world,…

— Linda Hogan

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

— Mark Rothko

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

— John Templeton

“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Neolithic: the fertility of the soil, the magic…

— Gary Snyder

“...it is necessary to act within but to think beyond our received humanist tradition and, all the while, to imagine a much more complicated…

— Lisa Lowe

“It is an interesting observation on today's religious climate that many people now get every bit as steamed up about insisting that 'all religions…

— N.T. Wright

Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.

— Mason Cooley

We were breaking away from anything that linked us to this world, but by doing that those ideas remained even stronger. Fables represent the…

— Alex Abreu