#ancient

It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful. ↗

— Carole Wilkinson

#dragon-keeper #dragons #inspirational #wisdom #inspirational

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury. ↗

— John Bright

#knowledge #languages #luxury #mainly

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#any #inevitable #language #more #state

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#away #blowing #blown #blown away #breeze

I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about. ↗

— Giambattista Valli

#against #ancient #another #architecture #bangs

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#daughters #greece #many #sons #ways

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#ancient #collective #culture #inner #maps

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#archetypes #changed #completely #decades #even

Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#ancient times #asia #basis #brought #country

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#did #find #meaning #myths #only