#ancient

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#chinese #fancy #heaven #luminous #milky

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#ancient #been #classic #dark #fairy

After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#aided #ancient #beneath #came #diligent

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#did #first #goddess #images #interest

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#ancient #arts #crete #discovery #europe

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence. ↗

— James Laughlin

#ancient #bit #blocks #break #break up

Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies. ↗

— Ovid

#latin #philosophy #enemy

Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties? ↗

— Roman Payne

#ancient-greeks #balance #beauties #cycles #europe

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#ancient #care #cherish #earth #foster