Ancient Quotes
This force is unlimited. It is always moving and always flowing. The ancient Hawaiians, the Kahunas, used the metaphor of the flow of a running stream to represent the divine force.
England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?
Many times man lives and dies Betweeen his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, And ancient Ireland knew it all. Whether man die in his bed Or the rifle knocks him dead
Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out.
Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.
It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!
As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.
What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!
This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.
Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
The shadows of twilight grow, And the tiger’s ancient fierceness In my veins begins to flow.
By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained.
I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.
I'd rather have a heart of goldThan all the treasure of the world.
Even gods decay. Like, in 1890 somebody sold off thousands of mummified Ancient Egyptian sacred cats - _for fertilizer_. Get the point? Constancy isn't.
The language of light can only be decoded by the heart.
God is the ultimate ground of Being, and this ultimate ground of Being is YOU. For one who realizes their true nature as God, as Consciousness, life becomes a joy without end.
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
Fear is the ghost of ancient.It consumes faithless human.
In India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone - the bed-rock - the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built.
The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.
For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced
I travel to the ancient world by reading ancient books.
We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.
Forget not the Sacred Sands...The grains that pass through Time’s ancient hands!
The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology.
Get rid of your useless ceremonials and be educated like your ancient ancestors – Aryabhatta, Brahmagupta, Susruta and others. Make education your purpose of life and spread it among the masses.
Ascension to successive echelons in the pyramid of awareness is an act of inclusion requiring unconditional acceptance of all that lies below.
The same principles that make a spiral galaxy also create the structure of a seashell and unfurling of a fern. This is why ancient spiritual people used natural symbols to convey universal concepts.
My first-year mentor Leslie taught me that the hurrieder we go, the behinder we get.
* Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.
Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?
They say the eyes are the apertures to the soul. If that is so, I feared Locusta's soul was far darker than even Nero's.
Wilier races had interbred with human race during immemorial.Therefore no need to look for them on anywhere but in ourselves.
Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from the stage with applause.
At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty4 to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction.
The written word is the greatest sacred documentation.
