Assyrians Quotes

• Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.

  Emil Nolde

  Beautiful, Art, Believe

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• The linguistic and literary reality of the biblical tradition is folkloristic in essence. The concept of a benei Israel ... is a reflection of no sociopolitical entity of the historical state of Israel of the Assyrian period

  Thomas L. Thompson

  Biblical, Reflection, Reality

  Thomas L. Thompson (2000). “Early History of the Israelite People: From the Written & Archaeological Sources”, p.422, BRILL

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• Teatro de la Crueldad significa un teatro difícil y cruel para mí en primer lugar. Y, en el plano de la representación, no se trata de la crueldad que podemos ejercer unos sobre otros cortándonos el cuerpo, esculpiendo nuestras anatomías personales o, como los emperadores asirios, enviando por correo paquetes de orejas, narices o fosas nasales humanas pulcramente desprendidas, sino de la crueldad mucho más terrible y necesaria que las cosas pueden ejercer contra nosotros. No somos libres. Y el cielo puede seguir cayendo sobre nuestras cabezas. Y el teatro ha sido creado para enseñarnos eso ante todo.

  Antonin Artaud

  Fall, Mean, Exercise

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.79, Grove Press

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• The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of 60 is still used in Astronomy.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Civilization, Names

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• I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going to die. Civilization is going to end. Our society is in decline, and we should feel OK about it because Roman society was in decline and before it the Assyrian one was, and they disappeared off this earth and we will disappear too.

  Etgar Keret

  Thinking, Civilization, Games

  Entrevista con Ben Ehrenreich, www.believermag.com. Abril de 2006.

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• You may think you find peace in Christ when you have no outward troubles, but is Christ your peace when the Assyrian comes into the land, when the enemy comes?...Jesus Christ would be peace to the soul when the enemy comes into the city, and into your houses.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Jesus, Thinking, Land

  Jeremiah Burroughs (1651). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment ...”, p.71

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• In the religion of the Medes and Persians the cult of trees plays an important part, and with them, as with Assyrians, the symbol of eternal life was a tree with a stream at its roots. Another object of veneration was the sacred miracle tree, which within itself contained the seeds of all.

  Marie-Luise Gothein

  Life, Play, Roots

  Marie-Luise Gothein, Walter P Wright (1979). “History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes”, p.21, Gardenvisit.com

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• The story of Judith. But one of the reasons I'm doing it is because the roles I've been writing for myself over the past few years have gotten older and older. And I thought, You know, before it's too late, I want to play a sexy, tough young gal again. And I always wanted to do a Biblical epic. So, I'll play a beautiful young widow who saves her people from the Assyrians.

  Charles Busch

  Beautiful, Sexy, Writing

  Fuente: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike powerless before the advance of the Assyrians, that magical superstitions based on mere terror, or rites designed to conciliate alien gods, invade the sphere of tribal or national religion. In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

  William Robertson Smith

  Men, Age, May

  William Robertson Smith (1889). “Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: First Series. The Fundamental Institutions”

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