Antiquity Quotes

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.

The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.

From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.

The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.

In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed off the variety and dissension among the philosophical schools of antiquity.

Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my own ethnic roots and to my love of antiquity, of the Old World and of the east.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

The telephone is an antiquity - you never know who is calling, there is no image, it is an outmoded product which constantly disrupts work.

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.

Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.

How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.

Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.

A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.

The larvae! The scent of young blood entices and draws them closer. There's no need to venture into antiquity to evoke the shades of the dead.

The great men of antiquity were poor.

We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became sinful and evil

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all.

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

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 East Africa... She was four feet tall and probably black..

...we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies needed to cure them.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.

IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE

What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.

Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we are men, who speak according to what is likely, and whose lectures resemble fables.