Ancient Quotes - Page 32

• Now when the ancient Egyptians, awestruck and wondering, turned their eyes to the heavens, they concluded that two gods, the sun and the moon, were primeval and eternal; and they called the former Osiris, the latter Isis.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Eye, Moon, Isis

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• Because drumming was recognized as an ancient source and symbol of the power of female technicians of the sacred, drumming was banned. Henceforth divinity was to be exclusively masculine. The suppression of women was directly linked to the suppression of the goddess.

  Layne Redmond

  Female, Drumming, Divinity

  Layne Redmond (1997). “When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm”

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• Rhythm is a means of organizing sound into specific energy formulas to harmonize the mind and body. Chanting, rhythmic breathing and drumming form an ancient technology for directly synchronizing the mind/body complex, creating conditions for psychological and physical healing.

  Layne Redmond

  Healing, Mean, Technology

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• Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out.

  William Butler Yeats

  Long, Dies

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.249, Wordsworth Editions

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• The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Mars, Way, Destruction

  Joseph Wood Krutch, Bern Dibner (1988). “The colloid and the crystal”

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• Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

  Sam Shoemaker

  Events, Christianity, Currents

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• You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Tree, Tears, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.120, Lexington Books

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• Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

  George Santayana

  Long, Poetry, Muse

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.58, MIT Press

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• It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Modern

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

  Charles Kingsley

  Dream, Men, Earth

  Charles Kingsley (1848). “Politics for the People”, p.30

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• Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

  Euripides

  Wise, Dream, Thinking

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• The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Rocks, World, Ascending

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.256

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• On the Continent stray cats are judged individually on their merit-some are loved, some are only respected; in England they are universally worshipped as in ancient Egypt.

  George Mikes

  Cat, Egypt, England

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• The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

  Lewis Mumford

  Discovery, Europe, Birth Place

  Lewis Mumford (1983). “The golden day: a study in American literature and culture”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Powerful, Ideas, Long

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• It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.

  Martin Amis

  Country, Average, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve?

  Du Fu

  Travel, Grieving, Should

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• In the world, there are countless Sadhus, Mahatmas, Mahapurushas, Saints, Yogis, and Walis, though the number of genuine ones is very, very limited. I am neither a Mahatma nor a Mahapurush, neither a Sadhu nor a Saint, neither a Yogi nor a Wali. I am the ancient One. The Highest of the High!

  Meher Baba

  Numbers, Saint, World

  Meher Baba (1977). “Not we but one”

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• Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.

  Jonathan Raban

  Travel, Book, Journey

  Jonathan Raban (1987). “For love & money: writing, reading, travelling, 1969-1987”

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• America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances.

  Israel Shenker

  Morning, Past, America

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.

  Northrop Frye

  Character, Tennessee, Kind

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.449, University of Toronto Press

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• ... the ancient joy of helping the tribe to survive is constantly rekindled in the engineer's heart.

  Samuel Florman

  Heart, Engineering, Joy

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• It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Humor, Sage, Tests

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• Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall.

  Li Shangyin

  Beautiful, Feelings, Age

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• When we undertake a task, we should not falter from first to last until the task is accomplished; if we fail, we should not begrudge our lives as a sacrifice-this is what we mean by loyalty. The ancient teaching of loyalty meant sometimes death.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Loyalty, Perseverance, Teaching

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