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I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.


Edith Hamilton


#classicism #courage #greatness #greece #soul

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.


Robert Hall


#apt #authority #custom #enforced #favor

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 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

The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.


Isaac Mayer Wise


#alone #antiquity #away #current #edifice

It should have been the Arabian Nights, but to Bond, seeing it first above the tops of trams and above the great scars of modern advertising along the river frontage, it seemed a once beautiful theatre-set that modern Turkey had thrown aside in favour of the steel and concrete flat-iron of the Istanbul-Hilton Hotel, blankly glittering behind him on the heights of Pera.


Ian Fleming


#istanbul #modernization #pera #turkey #beauty

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.


Desiderius Erasmus


#does #due #intellect #pay #reverence

For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.


Martin Chemnitz


#after #antiquity #applied #apply #conscience

Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.


Martin Chemnitz


#antiquity #consensus #considerable #diligence #examine

I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.


Ian Hamilton Finlay


#french #french revolution #i #i think #instance






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