Ancestry Quote by Plato

Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as…

— Plato

The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit or of…

— Edward Gibbon

“If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of…

— Rudyard Kipling

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall…

— Plato

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.

— Thomas Jefferson

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with…

— William Ellery Channing

The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean…

— Eugene O'Neill

[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a…

— Thomas Jefferson

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize…

— Theodor Herzl

“Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe.…

— Herman Melville

'Hereditary' is unabashedly a horror film. In a lot of ways, it's in dialogue with other horror films. But I do know that it…

— Ari Aster