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Quotes About Ancient

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.
~ Frank Black
Zoroastrianism;
~ Franz Cumont
Trade is very old. In the state of nature, trade is something people do to their enemies. They don't trade with kin.
~ Fredy Perlman
C'est là que pèchent les protagonistes de tel ou tel yoga qui croient devoir offrir aux gens les moins aptes et les moins avertis, une « voie purement scientifique » et « non-sectaire », « découverte » par d'anciens sages et « dégagée de toute superstition » et de toute « scolastique », c'est-à-dire, en somme, de toute garantie traditionnelle et même de toute raison suffisante
~ Frithjof Schuon
Guénon nous dit une fois que si nous pouvions rencontrer des hommes de l'âge d'or, nous serions frappés par le fait qu'ils parleraient toujours en images et non en langage abstrait. (De l'Esprit symboliste - Études Traditionnelles N°340, juin 1957)
~ Frithjof Schuon
A primitive symbol
~ Brandon Mull
It was one thing to snuggle a little when the world seemed about to end, and quite another to explain to her parents that she wanted to date an ancient magical horse.
~ Brandon Mull
The old Words must be spoken again.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Each robe was embroidered with the Double Eye of the Almighty, and Shallan had a fleeting thought, wondering at the seamstress they'd hired to do all this work. What had they told her? "Yes, we want twenty identical, mysterious robes, sewn with ancient arcane symbols. They're for Ã¢â'¬Â¦ parties.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Each yoki-hijo trained in an ancient and powerful art. A deliberate, wondrous artistry requiring the full synergy of body and mind. Geological reorganization on the microscale, requiring acute understanding of gravitational equilibrium. In other words, they stacked rocks.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like to think that I have left my ghost up one of those hollows, and I'll never really be able to leave for good until I find it. And I don't want to look for it, because I might find it and have to leave." - from a letter to his mother Helen Pancake that Breece wrote in Charlottesville, where he was studying writing.
~ breece d'j pancake
And the black abolitionist James McCune Smith noted that even if Congress passed a constitutional amendment forbidding slavery, "the word slavery will, of course be wiped from the statute book, but the 'ancient relation' can be just as well maintained by cunningly devised laws.
~ Brenda Wineapple
History is the mighty Tower of Experience, which Time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. It is no easy task to reach the top of this ancient structure and get the benefit of the full view. There is no elevator, but young feet are strong and it can be done.
~ Hendrik Willem van Loon
Indeed, one is tempted to say that these twin churches, Paris and Mantes, are the only French churches of the time (1200) which were left without a fleche. As we go from Mantes to Paris, we pass, about half-way, at Poissy, under the towers of a very ancient and interesting church which has the additional merit of having witnessed the baptism of Saint Louis in 1215.
~ Henry Adams
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is never too late to give up your prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To come down to my own experience, my companion and I, for I sometimes have a companion, take pleasure in fancying ourselves knights of a new, or rather an old, order—not Equestrians or Chevaliers, not Ritters or Riders, but Walkers, a still more ancient and honorable class, I trust.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true today may turn out to be falsehood tomorrow.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is, I think, the opinion of Aristotle; or if not, it is the opinion of some wise man, whose authority will be as weighty when it is as old
~ Henry Fielding
The volume is therefore primarily one of exposition. It makes no claim to originality with regard to any of the chief ideas that it expounds. Rather its effort is to show that many of the ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.
~ Henry Hazlitt
at Tiryns I stood in the shadow of the Cyclopean man and felt the blaze of that inner eye which has now become a sickly gland;
~ Henry Miller
Itjtawy was ancient Egypt's capital for over four hundred years, at a period of time called the Middle Kingdom about four thousand years ago. The site is located in the Faiyum of Egypt, and the site is really important because in the Middle Kingdom there was this great renaissance for ancient Egyptian art, architecture and religion.
~ Sarah Parcak
Well I actually think. I think it's a dinosaur... Have you ever seen the photos of Loch Ness? If you haven't by the way Google it. They look like diplodocus but in the water. These sightings have been going on for thousands of years and the first written account of Nessie was 1500 years ago.
~ Scarlett Moffatt