Quotes of: Ancient-greeks Keyword

Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make them out to be. Though clearly they were imperfect." "I don't deny that they were imperfect," Julian said in a distant voice. ...

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and...

The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents

If Christianity was only about finding a group of people to live life with who shared openly their search for God and allowed anyone regardless of behavior to seek too and who collectively lived by faith to make the world a little more like Heaven wo...

The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community: The Posture and Practices of Ancient Church Now

Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has e...

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

...most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in what , than in what it . It would have b...

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

We are asking if thought can be aware of itself. That is rather a complex question, and requires very careful observation. Thought has created wars through nationalism, through sectarian religions. Thought has created all this; God has not created th...

The Krishnamurti Reader

I have argued elsewhere (Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence [2005]) that we need to treat ethics in biblical texts just as we treat ethics in any other works of ancient literature. It is a vacuous exercise to pick and choose which atro...

Hector Avalos

Part of our skittishness about Christian perfection is linguistic confusion. The English word "perfect" has absorbed the Greek notion of "teleos". When the Greeks looked at a building's blueprint, they pictured the building whole and complete. They e...

The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul Tending for Youth Ministry

A little part of my life is built around ancient art.

Michael Steinhardt

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

Pierre de Fermat

Animals are not only beholders of great beauty, but they are also beholders of ancient wisdom.

Molly Friedenfeld

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

James Henry Breasted

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Francis Picabia

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

John Carpenter

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

Carol P. Christ

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

George Santayana

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

James Garner

The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.

Frans Lanting

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

Vera Miles

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

Virchand Gandhi