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Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the God of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, God of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet. (Ancients Quotes)
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names (Ancients Quotes)
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said (Ancients Quotes)
Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another (Ancients Quotes)
But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed (Ancients Quotes)
Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness, at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends (Ancients Quotes)
By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now (Ancients Quotes)
The ancients had a significant and truthful saying, that hunger was the best sauce for supper (Ancients Quotes)
Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science (Ancients Quotes)
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything (Ancients Quotes)
We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desire to be better than others. The new, democratic form is the desire not to have anyone better than yourself. It is just as spiritually deadly and does not even carry with it the false pleasure of gloating superiority (Ancients Quotes)
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. (Ancients Quotes)
The ancients had no tenure to protect them and wanted to avoid the prostitution to which those who have to live off their wits are prone (Ancients Quotes)
Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep them in order. The ancients did well, therefore, to invent gods, and the belief in punishment after death (Ancients Quotes)
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods (Ancients Quotes)
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients (Ancients Quotes)
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin (Ancients Quotes)
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry (Ancients Quotes)
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be (Ancients Quotes)
The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point - the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it (Ancients Quotes)
It was a saying of the ancients, truth lies in a well; and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water (Ancients Quotes)
No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone’s path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way (Ancients Quotes)
In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow sacred Scripture, properly interpreted, of course. God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellects. It seemed that direct communication with God was something exclusively for the ancients and uncivilized, while educated Westerner's access to God was mediated and controlled by the intelligentsia. Nobody wanted God in a box, just in a book (Ancients Quotes)
The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience (Ancients Quotes)
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients (Ancients Quotes)
In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals (Ancients Quotes)
If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them (Ancients Quotes)
Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration (Ancients Quotes)
Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death (Ancients Quotes)
The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns (Ancients Quotes)