Quotes About Ancient

Doctors of ancient times used to recommend reading to their patients as a physical exercise on an equal level as walking, running, or ball-playing.

Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?

chapitre xviii Aux sources des religions La thèse développée par l'anthropologue français René Girard dans La Violence et le Sacré 1 , et dans Des choses cachées depuis la fondation du monde 2 , illustre la manière dont, des religions traditionnelles les plus anciennes

Interestingly, vinifera is native to the same ara of southwestern Russia as the original Indo-European peoples, whose prehistoric migrations carried the Indo-European language and the vinifera grape to all parts of the ancient world.

Ninguém, em si, eleva-se acima de seu tempo. Os sublimes não estão, absolutamente, entre nós - podem estar na Grécia antiga ou entre alguns bárbaros. Muita cegueira advém de se estar tão distante, mas o direito de fechar-se aos próprios sentidos não pode ser negado a ninguém. Seja-lhes concedido isso.

Wasn't forgetfulness a gift of the gods to the ancient world? Without it. Life would be intolerable, wouldn't it? Yes, but the Jews live by other rules. For a Jew, nothing is more important than memory. He is bound to his origins by memory. It is memory that connects him to Abraham, Moses and Rabbi Akiva.

It is an admission of conflict and separation; these God creates and destroys, by His presence as much by His absence. All is possible with Him; nothing is possible without Him. But the opposite is equally true. Never forget what the ancient taught us: God exists in contradictions, too. He is the limit of all things, and He is what extends the limit.

It is the beginning and the end of the astrological calendar, and so it is said that children born on March 21 are ancient sounds who possess the wonder and innocence of newborns.

From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.

In ancient Greek, the word for the highest degree of human happiness is eudaimonia, which basically means "well-daemoned"—that is, nicely taken care of by some external divine creative spirit guide.

Fear is a deeply ancient instinct, in other words, and an evolutionarily vital one... but it ain't especially smart.

You don't get any special credit, is what I'm saying, for knowing how to be afraid of the unknown. Fear is a deeply ancient instinct, in other words, and an evolutionarily vital one . . . but it ain't especially smart.

As the Egyptians say, Ramses can hear a whisper across the Nile.

The beast looked like a small dinosaur, with a long, serpentine neck.

Weeded and worn the ancient thatchUpon the lonely moated grange.

Es imposible que tales potencias o seres hayan sobrevivido... hayan sobrevivido a una época infinitamente remota donde... la conciencia se manifestaba, quizá, bajo cuerpos y formas que ya hace tiempo se retiraron ante la marea de la ascendiente humanidad... formas de las que sólo la poesía y la leyenda han conservado un fugaz recuerdo con el nombre de dioses, monstruos, seres míticos de toda clase y especie...

This ancient script was graven in his soul.

Snakes in the ancient world, because of their skin-shedding ability, often symbolized immortality or eternal youth.

Kad su drevni narod stvarali bogove na svoju sliku, bojali su se i bili ponizni pred njima. U današnje doba, Bog se boji ljudi.

They obey older laws.

Archaeologists believe that wine-making began in Georgia and northern Persia some time between 6000 BC and 5000 BC.

Qué irónico que la gente descarte las matemáticas como la antítesis de la creatividad. Están desperdiciando una forma de arte más antigua que cualquier libro, más profunda que cualquier poema, y más abstracta que cualquier otra cosa.

It has deprived that mind of the cardinal advantage of knowing the sublime meaning of the splendid Jewish-Christian Scriptures, which are a collection of ancient mythographic portrayals of spiritual truth, sadly and calamitously mistaken for history.

unintelligence, just some more of the rubbish of fantastic Pagan superstition. It will therefore come as a surprise and shock if an intelligent re-examination forces us to realize that in profundity of knowledge and semantic skill in portraying it ancient perspicuity so far surpassed our own in this field of anthropological science that we