Ancient Quotes - Page 38

• Our culture is obsessed with youth because we have lost the ancient knowledge that growth never stops. We are not transient, momentary mistakes in
  the cosmos- evolutionary curiosities that rise like mayflies, swarm for a day, and are gone. We are players who are here to stay, and the universe was built with us in mind. We reflect it, with our deepest loves and loftiest aspirations, just as it reflects us.

  Eben Alexander

  Mistake, Player, Curiosity

  Eben Alexander (2014). “The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• The discussion of the sexual problem is only a somewhat crude prelude to a far deeper question, and that is the question of the psychological relationship between the sexes. In comparison with this the other pales into insignificance, and with it we enter the real domain of woman. Woman's psychology is founded on the principle of Eros, the great binder and loosener, whereas from ancient times the ruling principle ascribed to man is Logos.

  Carl Jung

  Sex, Real, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

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• Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of Nature and its laws . Magic is the science of the Ancient Magi: and the Christian religion, which has imposed silence on the lying oracles, and put an end to the prestiges of the false Gods , itself reveres those Magi who came from the East, guided by a Star , to adore the Saviour of the world in His cradle.

  Albert Pike

  Christian, Stars, Lying

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.751, Simon and Schuster

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• The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.

  John Steinbeck

  Eye, Sound, Ribs

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.

  Coventry Patmore

  Care, Agnostic, Modern

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.

  Aeschylus

  Fate

  Persae, l.102 (translated by H Weir Smyth).

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• We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Sky, Victory, Age

  The Atlantic Community Quarterly, Volumes 14-15 (p. 200), 1976-1978.

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• Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

  George Meredith

  Army, Law, Track

  'Lucifer in Starlight'

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• Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Circles

  Simone Weil (2002). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.286, Psychology Press

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• Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also, it began through the process of seeing, and feeling, and hearing, and smelling, and touching, and then remembering--I mean remembering in words--what these perceptual experiences were like, while trying to describe the endless invisible fears and desires of our inner lives.

  Mary Oliver

  Art, Mean, Poetry

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Evil, Growth, World

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Men, Erring, Old Man

  "We". Book by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1921.

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• It is incumbent upon the Aghsan, the Afnan and My kindred to turn, one and all, their faces towards the Most Mighty Branch. Consider that which We have revealed in Our Most Holy Book: 'When the ocean of My presence hath ebbed and the Book of My Revelation is ended, turn your faces toward Him Whom God hath purposed, Who hath branched from this Ancient Root.' The object of this sacred verse is none other except the Most Mighty Branch (Abdu'l-Baha). Thus have We graciously revealed unto you our potent Will, and I am verily the Gracious, the All-Powerful.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Powerful, Ocean, Book

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• It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Stars, Young, Everlasting

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• All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Drama, Successful, Play

  Eugene Ionesco (2015). “Amedee, The New Tenant, Victims of Duty: Three Plays”, p.79, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Yoga is an ancient discipline in which physical postures, breath practice, meditation, and philosophical study are tools for achieving liberation. In my interpretation, achieving liberation in yoga means learning how to be present with everything that arises, whether it is pain or pleasure, sadness or joy, failure or success. And to be present with whatever arises, I believe we must not only be aware of what is arising but we must also be able to see all things that arise as equal, with detachment.

  Rodney Yee

  Pain, Believe, Yoga

  Rodney Yee (2004). “Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee”, p.9, Rodale

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• Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

  Matthew Arnold

  Ancient Literature, Want, Sanity

  Matthew Arnold, Robert Henry Super (1960). “On the Classical Tradition”, p.17, University of Michigan Press

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• Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.

  Frank Herbert

  Love, Survival, Essentials

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.24, Penguin

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• [In ancient Rome,] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew? Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? It's the same thing with Germany and Hitler.

  George Lucas

  Kings, Government, Rome

  "'Sith' Invites Bush Comparisons" by Ellen Crean, www.cbsnews.com. May 16, 2005.

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• I am a thing not new, I am as old As human nature. I am that which lurks, Ready to spring whenever a bar is loosed; The ancient trait which fights incessantly Against restraint, balks at the upward climb; The weight forever seeking to obey The law of downward pull; and I am more: The bitter fruit am I of planted seed; The resultant, the inevitable end Of evil forces and the powers of wrong.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Spring, Fighting, Law

  James Weldon Johnson, “Brothers”

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• That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Constitution, did draw me here to accept the place of Protector. There is not a man living can say I sought it, no not a man, nor woman, treading upon English ground.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Men, Advice, Constitution

  "Diary of Thomas Burton Esq: Volume 2, April 1657 - February 1658". Book by Thomas Burton, www.british-history.ac.uk. 1828.

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• When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the honor of the place of my nativity, and to vindicate the rhetoric of this ancient forum of our Metropolis from the aspersions of the illiterate by composing A Treatise of the Alercation of the Ancients; wherein I have demonstrated that the purity, sincerity, and simplicity of their diction is nowhere so well preserved as amongst my neighbourhood.

  John Arbuthnot

  Simplicity, Greek, Honor

  George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”

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• The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd fat.

  John Arbuthnot

  Together, Littles, Dumplings

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• In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language and architecture left behind. These are the building blocks of civilization we call culture. These are what we call 'the arts.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Art, Block, Civilization

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• Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose the content, because those artists were part of an ancient tradition. Our tradition changes rapidly, our schools of thought come to fruition quickly and decay again. We see differently.

  John French Sloan

  School, Artist, Drawing

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