Ancient Quotes

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

These ancient huts were soon cleared of the rubbish covering them. I planned them, and removed them for investigation below, which undertaking took until the fourth of Nov.

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.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

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.