Ancient Quotes

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.

In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.

Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

Himmler wants to send an expedition to Tibet to look for ancient manuscripts on the Aryans. The man is like a little schoolgirl. What culture is there in an old jug, I ask you?

I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.

Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.

Writing is one of the most ancient forms of prayer. To write is to believe communication is possible that other people are good, that you can awaken their generosity and their desire to do better.

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.

Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems to have remained a secret.

Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.

The Kettlebell is an Ancient Russian Weapon Against Weakness

If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.

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

The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges : the pox and Christianity.

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.

When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.

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

Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain, And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!

The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.

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.

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

Seventy-two virgins - does that make sense to anyone? And it's an ancient religion, maybe it was misinterpreted? Maybe it's not 72 virgins, maybe it's a 7-foot-2 Persian.

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.

Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.

Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories.

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.

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.

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

Time makes ancient good uncouth.

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

The Hindus have worshipped from ancient times the baby Krishna in the arms of Virgin Devaki just as the Roman catholics [sic] worship Madona [sic] with baby Christ.

In the beginning, the feminine principle was seen as the fundamental cosmic force. All ancient peoples believed that the world was created by a female Diety.

It is not “just beer,” it is a noble and ancient beverage which, like wine, food and television advertising, can be extraordinarily good or unmercifully bad.