#ancient

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds. ↗

— The Bhagavad Gita

#fable #hindu #hinduism #india #myth

I froze all night. My back’s killing me. I want home, and I’m scared to death. But I guess the view makes it all worth it.” “You’re funny,” Angel said ↗

— Jayde Scott

#death

Ascension to successive echelons in the pyramid of awareness is an act of inclusion requiring unconditional acceptance of all that lies below. ↗

— Gerald R. Stanek

#ancient-wisdom #awareness #esoteric-wisdom #inspirational #pyramid

Desde la niñez, nos han hecho considerar este lugar como la cuna de la raza humana. ↗

— William Loftus

#egipto #inspirational #mesopotamia #science #inspirational

[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries of the human body forming a group of observations furnishing us with the earliest known nucleus of fact regarding the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the human body. Crude and elementary as they are, the method by which they were collected was scientific, and these observations, together with the diagnoses and the explanatory commentary in the ancient glosses, form the oldest body of science now extant. ↗

— James Henry Breasted

#ancient-egypt #ancient-medicine #biology #hieroglyphic #medical-history

The strands (the gods) weave out of our mortal lives are like a pattern visible only from the heavens; we here on earth can only guess at their designs ↗

— Steven Saylor

#design

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#impermanence #men

Men like Caesar and Pompey--they're not heroes, Meto. They're monsters. They call their greed and ambition "honour," and to satisfy their so-called honour they'll tear the world apart. But who am I to judge them? Every man does what he must, to protect his share of the world. What's the difference between killing whole villages and armies, and killing a single man? Caesar's reasons and mine are different only in degree. The consequences and the suffering still spread to the innocent (Gordianus the Finder to his son Meto) ↗

— Steven Saylor

#men

The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

#chamber #considerable #doubt #future #remains

The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs. ↗

— Silvio Berlusconi

#ancient #bigger #clearly #every #filtered