Quotes About Ancient

He fills my head with tales from the ancient forests, tales so old that the trees themselves call them legends. It is as if a veil has been lifted from my eyes, and the world I have lived in all my sixteen years is revealed to be something else entirely, something so marvelous I could never have imagined it.

Mientras que la ética moderna se ocupa principalmente de si las acciones son correctas o no, los filósofos premodernos concebían la ética como una investigación mucho más amplia sobre cómo vivir una vida feliz, cuya consecución consideraban la empresa más importante del ser humano.

This activation of our living root involves focusing on what is most important and what is within our control, such as our abilities, desires, plans, and daily routines. Through these teachings, we can learn the Daoist way to be comfortable with uncertainty and build a bridge between ancient Daoist wisdom and contemporary challenges.

la cabeza— que esos misteriosos emisarios fueron los tres Polo: el padre de Marco, Niccolò, su tío Maffeo y el propio Marco. Los tres venecianos que hicieron el viaje más famoso de la historia. —Absolutamente correcto —sentenció decididamente la anciana y hermosa Becky—. Los emisarios venecianos del Papa latino eran los Polo y, desde luego, entre otras razones, fueron a China en busca de

The man-eating beast that roamed through Anicent China. Totetsu…I never would have guessed I'd find one living in America. Just a little while longer and he would have been mine. In order to obtain him, I would have given up an arm or two without hesitation.

No one has ever found a Neolithic cave painting of someone waking up stressed because they slept through their alarm and missed their nine o'clock management meeting.

A collision between an ancient mind and a modern world (evolutionary psychology).

Imposibil. O veche injuratura din limba elfa.

Trade is 10 times as old as farming.

Sophocles long agoHeard it on the Aegean.

Sanity—that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

The myth of the dragon is a very peculiar one, precisely because it is a truly global myth. Giant serpents appear in mythologies from all over the world: China, Scandinavia, Greece, Persia, Germany, Central America, the United Kingdom, even Africa. There is no discernible reason for this. How could the myth of a large serpentine creature be so consistent across the ancient world? From: Dragons in History by Eleanor Lock (Border Press, London, 1999)

location of the royal prison have existed for centuries:

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.

He finally understood...the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up with mythologies to do with flight—a desire for the magic of the sky, for something bigger than their feet treading the earth.

The concept of Nature does not evoke only the residue of what had not been constructed by me, but also a productivity which is not ours, although we can use it--that is, an originary productivity that continues beneath the artificial creations of man. It both partakes of the most ancient, and is something always new.

There was a sense of permanence about Egypt; the past was never far from the present.

It says: "Baltic Amber, fifty million years old and full of fire; warm, and enduring like love". Wonderfully romantic, don't you think? Only I don't know how to differntiate thestuff from plain old yellow stones.

Snakes have many forms, you know. They have not always been evil or poisonous - or at least, not only so. Just as desire has not always been evil. In ancient times, snakes were a symbol of healing. Of wisdom. They can be very beautiful.

All this world confusion and chaos was inevitable and no one is to blame. What had to happen has happened; and what has to happen will happen. There was and is no way out except through my coming in your midst. I had to come, and I have come. I am the Ancient One.

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

Lucian stared at him, overwhelmed. "What are you all of a sudden?" he demanded gruffly. "An ancient wiseman?" Jory pointed to himself. "Look at me, cousin. Did ancient wisemen have shoulders like mine?

Thinking those old sticks looked authoritative, somehow. Like something belonging to an ancient queen come ashore by mistake in a common land full of limits.

The Greek poets had praised virtue as taking several specific forms: wisdom; courage; moderation; justice; and piety.