Immemorial Quotes

The True One was there from time immemorial.

He is there today and ever there you will find. He never died nor will he ever die. ... Look within, you will see Him there enshrined.

in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.

Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honors, or not even for the joys of the mind - it is a path for realization and salvation.

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...

Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles.

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop's secretary's nephew's mistress' illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a dream as long as man continues to condemn the biological demand for natural sexual gratification.

Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

I conceived from the outset a strong objection to Zionism.

I considered it immoral that immigrants should come from abroad with the avowed intention of attaining to majority in the country and thus to dispossess the people whose country it had been since time immemorial.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time.

The immemorial ingratitude of rulers and commonwealths is proverbial.

Especially common is ingratitude to Israel - the People that has achieved so much of eternal worth, but has rarely succeeded in winning gratitude.

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements.

... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance to the expanding heteronomy, even if only as thought's powerless attempt to remain its own master and to convict of untruth, by their own criteria, both a fabricated mythology and a conniving, resigned acquiescence.

Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet;

Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.

From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it.

Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever.

Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing;

it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings.

Since time immemorial it had been the custom before a sea battle for the men to wash and don clean clothes in case of being wounded. This was all the more necessary under these circumstances, as many of them were still covered with coal dust.

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable.

They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

If you're looking ecologically, then we are in very big trouble, yes.

But if you're talking about people sinking, I'm not so sure that's true. There are cycles of rise and fall, as there have been since time immemorial.

What I do with my kids is - and I think they probably do ignore us - is No Alcohol. If they're drunk they will be grounded for time immemorial.