Ancient Quotes
That which works is authentic. It's a practical truth. What really matters is that we find benefit, regardless of whether it's an ancient traditional approach or some new version, popular or obscure.
Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature.
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.
Peering, I heard the hooves come down the hill. The posse passed, twelve horse; the leader's face Was worn as limestone on an ancient sill.
Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.
Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.
The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.
In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.
In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.
In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.
Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.
In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.
The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is an ancient and powerful one. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over three thousand years ago and through all that time Jews remained steadfast to it.
More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.
Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.
I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born.
War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.
I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.
Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?
Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!
The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.
We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.
Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It's a real thing. It's not always referring to ancient history.
Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.
There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.
How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul is ancient, the stuff of stars.
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.