Ancient World Quotes - Page 2

• Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods, or space travelers, instead of by thousands toiling in the sun. Such thinking robs our forerunners of their due, and us of their experience. Because then one can believe whatever one likes about the past - without having to confront the bones, potsherds, and inscriptions which tell us that people all over the world, time and again, have made similar advances and mistakes.

  Ronald Wright

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

  Ronald Wright (2006). “An Illustrated Short History of Progress”

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• Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation.

  Carl Sagan

  Greek, Humanity, Library

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Who Speaks for Earth? [Episode 13]". TV series, 1990.

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• The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.

  Rachel Carson

  Mar, Tierra, Largo

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let it simply be said that we know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of Jesus, in and near Jerusalem, than we know about the death of any other one man in all the ancient world.

  Wilbur Smith

  Jesus, Men, Details

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• Una de las razones por las que a la gente le resulta tan difícil aplicar la Biblia al trabajo es que el mundo de las Escrituras parece tan distante de nuestro mundo moderno actual. Muchas realidades establecidas con las que nos encontramos a diario, como las corporaciones con y sin ánimo de lucro, no existían en el mundo antiguo.

  David Kim

  Reality, People, Encounters

  Fuente: www.biblegateway.com

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• I think a lot of these terms, nationalistic things, somebody is an American, or somebody is a Frenchman, or somebody is a Jew, I don't know, it doesn't mean anything to me. You really should start augmenting these words, saying what kind. If you want to say somebody is a Jew, what do you mean by that? Does he have blonde hair? I think a lot of these ancient nationalistic and ethnic terms have kind of lost their meaning, or their meaning is so broad, it's nothing. It's like he's connected to the ancient world. Everybody is.

  Ben Katchor

  Mean, Thinking, Hair

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and other curious nooks and crannies of ancient worlds and modern times.

  Ivars Peterson

  Math, Numbers, World

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• Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is irreversible. But today I want to present it as something different again, and even more intriguing. The DNA in you is a coded description of ancient worlds in which your ancestors lived. DNA is the wisdom out of the old days, and I mean very old days indeed.

  Richard Dawkins

  Wisdom, Mean, Dna

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• 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.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Morning, Long, Ignorant

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.305, W. W. Norton & Company

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• La belleza es la desinteresada, sin la cual el mundo antiguo se negaba a entenderse a sí mismo, una palabra que de forma imperceptible y a la vez inequívoca se ha despedido de nuestro nuevo mundo, un mundo de intereses, abandonándolo a su propia avaricia y tristeza.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Despedida, Tristeza, Partir

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1982). "Gloria del Señor VOL 1: Ver la forma", p.18, A&C Black

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• In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world these were privileges that belonged to any slave.

  Mark Mirabello

  Suggestions, Complaining, Citizens

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

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• Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.

  William Whewell

  Science, World, Astronomy

  William Whewell (1847). “History of the Inductive Sciences: I. The Greek school philosophy, with reference to physical science. II. The physical sciences in ancient Greece. III. Greek astronomy. IV. Physical science in the middle ages. V. Formal astronomy after the stationary period”, p.96

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• En el mundo antiguo los individuos se han vendido como esclavos, para poder comer. Así en la sociedad. He aquí un brujo que puede salvarnos de los hechiceros, un señor de la guerra que puede salvarnos de los bárbaros, una Iglesia que puede salvarnos del infierno. Darles lo que piden, entregarnos a ellos atados y con los ojos vendados, ¡si ellos quieren! Quizás el terrible trato se haga de nuevo. No podemos culpar a los hombres por hacerlo. Apenas podemos desear que no lo hagan. Sin embargo, no podemos soportar que lo hagan.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Men, Doctors

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• I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Israel, World, Ancient

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• Los que hemos vivido antes de que se construyera el ferrocarril pertenecemos a otro mundo. Fue ayer, ¡pero qué abismo hay entre ahora y entonces! Entonces era el viejo mundo. Los carruajes, más o menos veloces, los caballos de montar, los caballos de carga, los salteadores de caminos, los caballeros con armadura, los invasores normandos, las legiones romanas, los druidas, los antiguos británicos pintados de azul, etc., todo eso pertenecía a la época antigua. Pero su ferrocarril inicia la nueva era, y nosotros, los de cierta edad, pertenecemos a la nueva época y a la antigua. Nosotros, que vivimos antes del ferrocarril y sobrevivimos fuera del mundo antiguo, somos como el padre Noé y su familia fuera del Arca.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Caballo, Padre, Azul

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• Wherever we look in the ancient world the past has been controlled, but nowhere more rigorously than in the history of the Christian church. The methods of control, wherever we find them, fall under three general heads which might be described as (a) the invention, (b) the destruction, and (c) the alteration of documents.

  Hugh Nibley

  Christian, Fall, Power

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• When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.

  Steve Berry

  Country, Past, World

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• Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshipped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow.

  Lawrence Wright

  Pensamiento, Ideas, Personas

  "Renowned journalist throws the book at Scientology". Interview with Daniel Burke, www.washingtonpost.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Father, Practice

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• Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. The symbol of art is seen again in the magic flute of the Great God Pan which makes the young goats frisk at the edge of the grove. All modern art begins to appear comprehensible and in a way great when it is interpreted as an attempt to instill youthfulness into an ancient world.

  José Ortega y Gasset

  Art, Men, Magic

  "The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter "Art a Thing of No Consequence", 1925.

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• Hay un viejo chiste que dice que el socialismo es la síntesis de los logros más elevados de toda la historia humana hasta la fecha: de las sociedades prehistóricas tomó el primitivismo; del mundo antiguo, la esclavitud; de la sociedad medieval, la dominación brutal; del capitalismo, la explotación; y del socialismo, el nombre.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Nombres, Logros, Mundo

  Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Slavoj Žižek (2002). "La revolución a las puertas: Una selección de escritos de febrero a octubre de 1917", p.311, Verso

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• The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought

  Bernard Bailyn

  Literature, World, Revolution

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.26, Harvard University Press

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• Lo que el arte fue para el mundo antiguo, la ciencia es para el moderno; la facultad distintiva. En la mente de los hombres, lo útil ha sucedido a lo bello.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beautiful, Art, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.113

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