The Ancient World Quotes
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The Ancient World Quotes & Sayings
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Everything that occurs in the world, in every epoch, has something that corresponds to it in ancient times.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Astrology's roots lie in an ancient world-view which perceived the universe as a single living organism, animated by divine order and intelligence.
— Liz Greene
His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives.
— Andrew Roberts
The ancient writers were not merely convinced of Moses' existence: they saw him as one of the formative figures of world history.
— Paul Johnson
There were no other groups in the ancient world going around claiming to be the human race.
— N. T. Wright
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
— Elizabeth Peters
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.
— Richard Allen
In ancient Ireland the soul had but to stretch out its arms to fill them with beauty. Now all manner of ugliness besets the world.
— Orna Ross
The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.
— Menachem Begin
The great dragon was thrown out - the ancient serpent ... the Devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. Revelation 12:9
— Beth Moore
On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.
— P. E. Cleator
I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets ... the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
— Rachel Carson
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.
— Arthur Erickson
Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.
— Charlie Chaplin
The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges : the pox and Christianity.
— Adolf Hitler
[Christians] are people such as the world has not seen hitherto, and their teaching is of a kind that the world has not heard up to this time ...
— Henryk Stanczyk
The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
That's what I want to do, ultimately: figure out a way to get the world engaged with discovery and protecting these ancient sites.
— Sarah Parcak
In this world, hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed. This is the ancient and eternal law.
— Jack Kornfield
Every position in life is balanced by creating a harmony between the inner self and the surrounding world.
— Hellmut Wilhelm
The world will not change by our position in the Universe. Actions change when beliefs change; collective actions and beliefs change the world.
— Matthew A. Petti
wage-labor contracts in the ancient world were primarily a matter of the rental of slaves - a
— David Graeber
The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate 'residues' of the ancient traditional sciences.
— Rene Guenon
In all his years he had not seen one as ancient as this, so obviously belonging to a world far older than his own.
— Stephen Lloyd Jones
In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.
— Elie Metchnikoff
The Truth is always trying to reveal itslef to us in our physical world.
— Matthew A. Petti
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
— Leon Kass
There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.
— F.F. Bruce
Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.
— David Rockefeller
Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
In this world,
hate never dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. - The Buddha — Gautama Buddha
hate never dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. - The Buddha — Gautama Buddha
Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.
— John Ortberg
Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.
— Dewitt Bodeen
I at least know what I am and do not try to hide it from the rest of the world. Do you know what you are? Because you can only be one thing at a time.
— Katlyn Charlesworth
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
— N. T. Wright
There was a mysterious chasm between this island and the greater world, just like there was between old and young, ancient and new.
— Ann Brashares