Quotes About Ancient

It couldn't be clearer than in the ancient tale of Isis, Mistress of Magic, who has enough power to stop the sun in the sky but can't conceive the child she is destined to bear without sexual intercourse. Isis can resurrect her dead husband long enough for a quickie, she can charm up a working gold penis because the original went missing during the resurrection process, but with all that power she is unable to conceive a child without sperm.

Poverty is the curse of ancient but numerous lineages.

The ancient Greeks had two concepts of time — Chronos and Kairos — which can help you wisely channel your sensitivities.

Troya, Micenas, Knossos... ciudades que durante siglos se creyó que pertenecían al mundo de los mitos pero que Schliemann, Evans y otros arqueólogos se empeñaron en demostrar su existencia y lo lograron

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

There is nothing inherently conservative in the ancient world.

The sarangi, the ney flute are pretty ancient instruments.

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.

And they want to know what we talked about? "de litteris et de armis, praestantibusque ingeniis", Both of ancient times and our own; books, arms, And of men of unusual genius.

Today in our late modern culture we find a growing dissatisfaction with the denigration of human embodiment and sociality that characterized so much ancient and early modern anthropology. These concerns have arisen in connection with what I call the philosophical "turn to relationality.

L'Islam, durant le printemps de son expansion, ne fait que rendre vie à l'antique civilisation orientale (...). Il s'agit là d'une civilisation solide e édifiée sur des régions fort riches, auprès desquelles l'Arabie fait très pauvre figure.

La vie religieuse de la Chine, dans ses fondements, est très antérieure aux trois grands courants de sa vie spirituelle: le confucianisme, le taoïsme (à peu près au même moment) et, bien plus tard, le bouddhisme.

The pyramid is opening up" "Which one?" " The one with the ever widening hole in it".

Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.

Giordano Bruno was to take the bolder course of maintaining that the magical Egyptian religion of the world was not only the most ancient but also the only true religion, which both Judaism and Christianity had obscured and corrupted.

Lord Fellmotte was not a man. He was an ancient committee. A parliament of deathly rooks in a dying tree.

But loving the Bible and sustaining a lifelong relationship with it does not entail checking one's brain at the door. It does not require agreement with, or acquiescence to, everything it has to say. In fact, many thoughtful people who honor the Bible nonetheless relate to Robert Carroll's frank observation: reading an ancient document like the Bible cannot help but raise profound problems for them. And

Time is running out. The seconds are ticking away toward midnight. The human race is about to take the fatal plunge . . . Is there any authority left? Is there a path we can follow? Can we find a code book that will give us the key to our dilemmas? We do have authoritative source material. It is found in the ancient and historic Book we call the Bible.

Ancient historians tell us that one of the symptoms of a declining civilization is a desexualization of the human race, with men becoming more effeminate and women becoming more masculine, not only in physical [appearance] but in their basic characters.

As we cast our frightened eyes around for something that is real and true and enduring, we are turning once more to this ancient Book [the Bible] that has given consolation, comfort, and salvation to millions in the centuries past.

I am half child, half ancient.

I'm half child, half ancient.