Quotes by Ancient I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun. Steven Pressfield ancient stuff fun The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no one, except maybe a Cambridge or Oxford don, can call you out and prove you wrong. Steven Pressfield ancient oxford writing We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. Tacitus ancient age All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others. Tacitus ancient exclusion moral We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. Tanith Lee ancient art needs Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a moment you would shrivel up into a moth, they sir, had time-and you have no time! Swami Vivekananda ancient giants thinking History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television. Tariq Ali ancient ignored television Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away. Terry Pratchett ancient feet running The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. Thomas Hobbes ancient envy competition In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant. Tom Turner ancient space spiritual Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory. Twyla Tharp ancient wells memories The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived. Upton Sinclair ancient study firsts A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it? Vera Nazarian ancient blind dumb Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time. Viktor Schauberger renaissance ancient invention Spying has always gone on since ancient times. Vladimir Putin ancient-times ancient gone Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. Voltaire ancient divorce believe It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars! W. E. B. Du Bois ancient stars young Society therefore is an ancient as the world. Voltaire ancient society world Leonardo da Vinci did not take received wisdom - whether from ancient classical thinkers or medieval scholars or from the Bible - without questioning it. And this was the beginning of the scientific method. This is another lesson for our time: that when we have evidence that contradicts a certain belief, we should be willing to change it. I think this made Leonardo, in some ways, a person who better understood the beauty of God's creation than a person who just takes all received wisdom from the Bible on faith. Walter Isaacson ancient belief thinking No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. Walter Pater renaissance ancient italian «345678910111213»
