#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

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

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

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#among #ancient #beach #disturbs #every

The new science will be a manifestation of ancient technologies. It will come in sudden, humans will experience technological shock. ↗

— Toba Beta

#technological-shock #experience

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#ancient #arrived #england #family #history

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride. ↗

— Charles Godfrey Leland

#before #between #breeze #bride #call

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#always #ancient #capitalist #capitalist society #freedom

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#destroy #dictum #drive #first #him