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Famous Ancients Quotes

Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ... the age of Atlantis. β€” Frederick Lenz

The world has always been this way. I am sure in the mystery world of Egypt, ancient Atlantis, you pick a cosmos - There is always somebody on your case. β€” Frederick Lenz

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. β€” Carol P. Christ

Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world β€” Marcus Garvey

The old Atlantean sciences from the tribe of enlightenment, of which there are only a few remnants and chards left in this world, were medicine, law, computers, and the performing arts. β€” Frederick Lenz

First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass. β€” Jean-Luc Godard

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day. β€” Wilhelm Dilthey

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. β€” Baron d'Holbach

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages. β€” Ruth Hurmence Green

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom. - Thomas Carlyle

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom. β€” Thomas Carlyle

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa. β€” John Henrik Clarke

Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library. - Luther Standing Bear

Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library. β€” Luther Standing Bear

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. β€” H. P. Lovecraft

According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world. β€” Richard Allen

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy. β€” John Kennedy Toole

Short Ancients Quotes

  • I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste. β€” Guru Nanak
  • I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me. β€” Archilochus
  • Ancient Hawaiians say: When you're itching for the waves, the only lotion is the ocean. β€” Josip Broz Tito
  • Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. β€” Hippocrates
  • Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal. β€” Alexander The Great
  • Love is no assignment for cowards. β€” Ovid
  • Be as you wish to seem. β€” Socrates
  • No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full. β€” Sulla
  • Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. β€” Harrison Ford
  • Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. β€” Steven Pressfield

Ancients Image Quotes

Where our work is, there let our joy be. - Tertullian quote

Where our work is, there let our joy be. β€” Tertullian

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

History Of The World Quotes

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. β€” Michelle Obama

The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom. β€” Phillis Wheatley

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. β€” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. β€” Hermann Goring

The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev. β€” Nikita Khrushchev

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy. β€” Amartya Sen

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down. β€” Thurgood Marshall

We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world will say to you, 'You are not worthy to enjoy the blessings of democracy or anything else'. β€” Carter G. Woodson

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. β€” George Orwell

On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, Δ°stanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens. β€” Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

When The World Quotes

Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died. β€” Alexander The Great

Watch your back, but more importantly when you get out the shower, dry your back. Its a cold world out there. β€” DJ Khaled

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray. β€” Rumi

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. β€” Jimi Hendrix

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. β€” Socrates

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did. β€” Alexander Fleming

I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become One Circle again. β€” Crazy Horse

When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking. β€” Gabrielle Roth

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God. β€” Smith Wigglesworth

Most of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence. β€” Shams Tabrizi

Ancient History Quotes

Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt. β€” Cheikh Anta Diop

Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis. β€” Frederick Lenz

What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude. β€” Isabel Wilkerson

Whereas much of what we know from ancient history is derived from one or two sources, we have no fewer than nine ancient sources, inside and outside the New Testament, corroborating the disciples' conviction that they encountered the resurrected Jesus. That's an avalanche of data. β€” Lee Strobel

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day. β€” Stephen Jay Gould

If the people of the United States come to Iran and see its ancient history and nature of Iran, and the people of Iran go to the United States to see America, this can shorten the walls of mistrust and improve the situation for the future. β€” Hassan Rouhani

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself. β€” Anne Rice

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events? β€” Samuel M. Shoemaker

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events? β€” Sam Shoemaker

I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for school, from ancient history to math. I was more interested in drawing in the margins than actually doing the work. β€” Nancy Spero

Ancient Times Quotes

Δ°stanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly the most beautiful place of the world. β€” Gerard De Nerval

After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. β€” Werner Heisenberg

Winter always turns into Spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn. β€” Nichiren

And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen? β€” William Blake

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part. β€” Richard Stallman

The members of the Mystery school, during the time of Atlantis, had psychically seen the subsequent ages of darkness. β€” Frederick Lenz

Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe. β€” Bill Bryson

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song. β€” Zoltan Kodaly

During the time of Atlantis, members of the Mystery Schools discovered and developed specific concentration exercises that they found would radically increase and sharpen their innate psychic abilities. β€” Frederick Lenz

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time. β€” Grazia Deledda

Ancient Civilizations Quotes

How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international conοΏ½icts of today. β€” Arundhati Roy

If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay. β€” Theodore Roosevelt

Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically advanced in genetic engineering, computer science, inter-dimensional physics, and artistically developed with electronic music and crystal art forms. β€” Frederick Lenz

They wanted to preserve and protect the mystical knowledge gained from their meditation practices and pass it on to future civilizations they clairvoyantly saw were going to be born after the destruction of Atlantis β€” Frederick Lenz

In their meditations, the high priests and priestesses of Atlantis had seen that the Atlantean civilization was going to end cataclysmically. β€” Frederick Lenz

The mystery school continued throughout the greater Egyptian civilization, which was the second age of humankind and later on into the third age of humankind when the Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan high cultures flourished β€” Frederick Lenz

By the time the Egyptian civilization had begun to flourish, the earth's aura had already become so dense it was impossible to discover the secret meditation techniques. β€” Frederick Lenz

It was their intention to start twelve new civilizations similar to Atlantis in these locations. β€” Frederick Lenz

There were many stages to the Atlantean civilization. During the later stages, scientists became involved with advanced particle physics. In particular they were interested in reverse gravity fields. β€” Frederick Lenz

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. β€” Nikola Tesla

Ancient Quotes

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it. β€” W. E. B. Du Bois

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. β€” Wendell Berry

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. β€” Pericles

You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?' β€” Morgan Freeman

O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, You are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep. β€” Hildegard of Bingen

Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations. β€” Allan Boesak

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous β€” Albert Einstein

According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his ability to ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth. Perhaps we should now grant our college degrees to young men who measure up to that standard. β€” Jeff Cooper

My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally. β€” John Dominic Crossan

The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet. β€” Igor Sikorsky

Ancient Art Quotes

Unfortunately, half the boats were lost in a great storm at sea, and many members of the six boats that did make it to their destinations safely, were later killed by the very native people to whom they sought to transmit their knowledge of the Atlantean sciences, arts and metaphysics. β€” Frederick Lenz

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years. β€” Jerry Saltz

Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and psychic and occult arts. β€” Frederick Lenz

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient. β€” Paul Beatty

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. β€” Lao Tzu

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling. β€” John F. Carlson

[On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art. β€” Riane Eisler

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. β€” Henry James Sumner Maine

In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least some form of art is displayed, and not only displayed, but highly regarded and willingly engaged in. β€” Ellen Dissanayake

Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas. β€” Jessica Helfand

Antiquity Quotes

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. β€” Marcus Tullius Cicero

The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity. β€” Bal Gangadhar Tilak

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. β€” Ralph Waldo Emerson

This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in a test tube, or has in any way come into a relationship with it as he has with the other objects of his daily experience. β€” John B. Watson

Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. β€” Dieter Rams

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. β€” Benjamin Disraeli

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven! β€” Giordano Bruno

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. - Walter Rauschenbusch

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. β€” Walter Rauschenbusch

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners. β€” Mikhail Bakunin

Gold miners have incentive to conceal & minimize the full extent of their reserves, increase their capacity aggressively, and mine more gold as fast as they can. They are the enemies of gold investors. It’s a hopelessly antiquated system for storing value in the 21st century. β€” Michael Saylor

World History Quotes

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains. β€” Hermann Goring

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world. β€” Jane Addams

Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas. β€” Augusto Pinochet

Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at overthrowing spiritual energy and moral values, action needs to develop into a world crusade for the Spiritual Humanity. β€” Vida Goldstein

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines. β€” Jean-Marie Le Pen

Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex. β€” Carrie Chapman Catt

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions? β€” Polly Toynbee

If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world. - George III

If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world. β€” George III

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled. β€” Josiah Strong

In today's America He (Jesus) has moved from the central figure of world history to source material for late-night comics and pundits who would not dare treat other religious leaders with such disrespect. β€” David Jeremiah

Ancient India Quotes

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. β€” Albert Einstein

Members of the Rae Chorze-Fwaz order trace their origins back through Tibet, Japan, China, India, and ancient Egypt to the place the order was founded, the lost continent of Atlantis. β€” Frederick Lenz

Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day. β€” Edward Bach

The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before. β€” Alfred North Whitehead

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household. β€” Amar Bose

From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. β€” Reginald Heber

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity. β€” Voltaire

SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt. β€” Ambrose Bierce

ChΓ’rvΓ’kas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists. β€” Swami Vivekananda

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way. β€” Libba Bray

Ancient Egypt Quotes

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. β€” Northrop Frye

Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants. - Frederick Lenz

Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants. β€” Frederick Lenz

The high-priests and priestesses of Atlantis had discovered many of the deepest secrets of the universe. They had come to understand all about reincarnation, karma, and the innermost workings of the Enlightenment Cycle. β€” Frederick Lenz

We live in an age that's repeating itself endlessly. We're getting closer again to the techno-chic world we saw in Atlantis that occurs in countless planes. It's indigenous to enlightenment. β€” Frederick Lenz

The night before Atlantis sank beneath the waves forever, the members of the MysterySchool set sail from their doomed continent in twelve boats, headed for twelve different points on the globe. β€” Frederick Lenz

Their experiments caused them to destabilize the structure of the continent and thus Atlantis sank beneath the waves. β€” Frederick Lenz

God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles? β€” Frederick Lenz

The high priests and priestesses taught the children the secret meditation techniques, along with methods and ways of living that would increase their pranic levels and help them develop their psychic skills. β€” Frederick Lenz

To the great pharaohs it mattered a great deal to bury their treasures in the pyramids, which they thought they would bring to the other worlds. But obviously it doesn't matter to them now. They went, the goods stayed. β€” Frederick Lenz

The members of the Atlantean Mystery School were the earliest human explorers of the frontiers of inner space. Through their meditative journeys and explorations, they discovered many secret astral passageways that led to an infinite variety of other worlds and dimensions. β€” Frederick Lenz

Ancient Literature Quotes

At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not so with the New Testament. β€” Daniel B. Wallace

Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise. Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it. β€” Dennis McKinsey

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient. β€” Mo Yan

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. β€” Gilbert Murray

There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament. β€” F. F. Bruce

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical. β€” Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era. β€” Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge. β€” Bernie Taupin

More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work. β€” Fred Saberhagen

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. β€” James Loeb

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More Ancients Quotes

Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth. β€” Mahathir Mohamad

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity. β€” Alexander Hamilton

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. β€” John F. Kennedy

Freemasonry is an ancient and respectable institution, embracing individuals of every nation, of every religion, and of every condition in life. Wealth, power and talents are not necessary to the person of a Freemason. An unblemished character and a virtuous conduct are the only qualifications for admission into the Order. β€” Andrew Jackson

It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit. β€” Theodor Herzl

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive. β€” Arthur Erickson

Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the principle of life, along with the dream (for those who have not yet achieved it) of accomplishing the great work, that is the reproduction by man of the divine, natural fire which creates and recreates beings. β€” Eliphas Levi

Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky. β€” Neil deGrasse Tyson

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe. β€” Zhuangzi

The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget. β€” Rudyard Kipling

Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves that have been long buried and forgotten. β€” Anna Halprin

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years. β€” Lillian Smith

Naturally I never had the intention to offend or alienate Slavs. ... What makes me different from the 'nazis' are basically three things; unlike them I am not socialistic (not even on a national level), I am not materialistic and I believe in (the ancient Scandinavian!) democracy. β€” Varg Vikernes

I call this a β€˜lost art’ because so many of these new discoveries aren’t new at all. Most of the techniques I’ll be exploring have been around for hundreds, sometimes thousands of years. They were created, documented, forgotten, and discovered in another culture at another time, then forgotten again. This went on for centuries. β€” James Nestor

Ancient yoga, and its focus on prana, sitting, and breathing, has turned into a form of aerobic exercise. β€” James Nestor

The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be. β€” W. E. B. Du Bois

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. β€” John F. Kennedy

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. β€” Vladimir Lenin

We've always known that our bodies are capable of healing themselves under the right conditions: Diet and exercise improve our health. But there are also ancient genetic survival pathways in every living thing. β€” David Sinclair

Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics. β€” Fritjof Capra

Keep to the ancient way and custom of the Church, established and confirmed by so many Saints under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And live a new life. Pray, and get others to pray, that God not abandon His Church, but reform it as He pleases, and as He sees best for us, and more to His honor and glory. β€” Angela Merici

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