Antiquity Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Antiquity Antiquity Praises Antiquity Remote Praise Praises Praises Antiquity Stills
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. — Desiderius Erasmus 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
Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity. — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“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
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
The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
“Since antiquity, men have defined themselves by those who are excluded.” — Jim Robinson Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity. — Oleg Cassini Copy Share Image
