#antiquity

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#civilization #classical #common #discussion #freedom

The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity. ↗

— Henri Pirenne

#antiquity #break #cause #east #end

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. ↗

— Plutarch

#celebrated #childhood #continue #days #ignorant

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#conservatism #discards #future #having #makes

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#back #dead #fame #great #inheritance

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#inclines #little #man #popery #skill

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#exactness #fact #great #lies #men

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise? ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#do you know #foolish #how #know #made

We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#among #ancient #antiquity #art #australians

If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts; Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void ↗

— Deanne Williams

#england #historiography #late-antiquity #narrativist #age