Quotes About Ancient

I feel at once the need to die and be reborn one thousand years ago.

medalla, ¡oh príncipe!, fue grabada por un profundo conocedor del misticismo numérico. Los antiguos creían que ciertos números tenían un poder mágico. El "tres" era divino, el "siete" era el número sagrado. Los siete rubíes que vemos aquí revelan la preocupación del artista en relacionar el número 128 con el número 7. El número 128 es, como sabemos, susceptible de descomposición

sistema de numeración más antiguo es el quinario, que es el sistema en el que las unidades se agrupan de cinco en cinco.

Briefly stated, the true purpose of ancient philosophy was to discover a method whereby development of the rational nature could be accelerated instead of awaiting the slower processes of Nature.

Without the mysterious keys carried by the hierophants of the Egyptian, Brahmin, and Persian cults the gates of Wisdom cannot be opened.

A fin de simplificar las grandes verdades de la naturaleza y los principios abstractos de la ley natural, las fuerzas vitales del universo se personificaron y se transformaron en los dioses de las mitologías antiguas.

Though the modern world may know a million secrets, the ancient world knew one - and that was greater than the million; for the million secrets breed death, disaster, sorrow, selfishness, lust, and avarice, but the one secret confers life, light, and truth.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men.

The lobby was a large chamber carpeted in ancient maroon pile, its darkness only slightly relieved by a few small candles. Stairs rose off into black heights, and the mouths of corridors yawned on either side.

This state of affairs continued until the Britons defeated the Saxons at a place called Badon Hill (Mons Badonicus

a western half comprising Italy, Spain, Gaul and Britain,

in the early fourth century, 350 feet long and able to accommodate around 3,000 worshippers.

Legionary fortresses, each capable of accommodating thousands of men,

ideas whose inaccuracy was atoned for by their honest simplicity, were derived not from books, but from a tradition at once ancient and direct, unbroken, oral, degraded, unrecognisable, and alive.

Anam is the Irish word for "soul" and ?ara is the word for "friend." In the Anam-?ara friendship, you were joined in an ancient way with the friend of your soul. This was a bond that neither space nor time could damage. The friendship awakened an eternal echo in the hearts of the friends; they entered into a circle of intimate belonging with each other. The Anam-?ara friendship afforded a spiritual space to all the other longings of the human heart.

The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us; it is within: the clay from where the tree of the body grows.

I do not wish to criticize any system that can nourish people's spirits, but I find that a lot of New Age writing cherry-picks the attractive bits from the ancient traditions and makes collages of them; it usually excises the ascetic dimension. In general it is not rigorously thought out, but is what I would call "soft" thinking.

Perhaps we have overrated roots as a psychic need. Maybe the greater the urge, the deeper and more ancient is the need, the will, the hunger to be somewhere else.

The dirty romans are forming up for calvery.

Pre-Cambrian Memory.

In the opinion of architects such as Harvey Wiley Corbett, skyscrapers were America's great gift to architecture, the first new structural form since the ancient Romans

Since well before the Kung's engine noise first penetrated the forest, a conversation of sorts has been unfolding in this lonesome hollow. It is not a language like Russian or Chinese but it is a language nonetheless, and it is older than the forest. The crows speak it; the dog speaks it; the tiger speaks it, and so do the men--some more fluently than others.

An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!