Quotes About Ancient

Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.

The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.

For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential.

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

I want to build / and raise anew / Theseus' Temple and the Stadiums / and where Pericles livedBut there's no money, too much spent today / I had a guest over and we sat together.

In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now.

As on many mornings in Marin, there is this sly strip of fog - water in it's most mystical incarnation - slithering over, around, and through the hills, making everything look ancient and unsolved.

Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.

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.

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

Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.

It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.

In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

Nature is relic of pre-human civilizations.

People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.

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

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.