All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings. . . We must run roughshod over all these ancient puerilities, overturn the barriers that reason never erected, give back to the arts and sciences the liberty that is so precious to them.
To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison; but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.
Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.
An ancient Vedic aphorism says, "Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality. " When we cultivate flexibility in or consciousness, we renew ourselves in every moment and reverse the aging process.
When people come together around music, there's something ancient going on. It has to come from a genuine place and that's part of the challenge. You have to cultivate that authenticity everyday.
Touch is. . . one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.
Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.
It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.
I would tell you that for me the sanctity of life proceeds out of the belief that ancient principle that - where God says before you were formed in the womb, I knew you, and so for my first time in public life, I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.
The rich are always enamored of the ancient.
Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain- beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering.
Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.
Half a page--and the morning is already ancient.
A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.
In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.
On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. "How old is this ruin?" someone asked a guide. "Forty-two years," said Lange.
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.
Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
We're animals, I think we forget that. I think there is an ancient archetypal memory that still exists within us. If we deny that, what is the cost? So I do think it's what binds us as human beings.