Quote by Voltaire Download Open image ““Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity.”” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“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 Copy Share Image
“All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern. Well, okay . . . maybe medieval.” — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.” — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.” — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
“There is a great deal of solemn discussion about The Novel. In fact, every novel is an answer to the ancient plea, 'Tell us… — Pamela Brown Copy Share Image
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Profound changes are imminent in the ancient craft of the beautiful.” — Jason Lazarus Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
