Top 1200 Ancient Civilizations Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space time, energy, information, and matter. Even though this view is an ancient view, an ancient world view, it is now finding some resonance amongst a few scientists.

The critical thing about Western democracy is the fact that you usually have a transition of power without bloodshed. That is an enormous advantage. But still, democracy as we know it was only invented recently in the West, historical speaking. It did not really work in ancient Rome. It functioned for less than 200 years in ancient Athens.

The Ancient One, as you know, is the master, is the Sorcerer Supreme, and [Doctor] Strange comes to learn how to heal himself and The Ancient One has got the knowledge. And so what you're seeing today is a part of the whole training section when he's learning the moves and digging deep. So it's all about that, it's all about trying to push him to get there.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

It may seem absurd to believe that a 'primitive' culture in the Himalaya has anything to teach our industrialized society. But our search for a future that works keeps spiraling back to an ancient connection between ourselves and the earth, an interconnectedness that ancient cultures have never abandoned.

And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.

Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to antiquity.

Pharisaism became Talmudism...But the spirit of the Ancient Pharisee survives unaltered. When the Jew...studies the Talmud, he is actually repeating the arguments used in the Palestinian academies. From Palestine to Babylonia; from Babylonia to North Africa, Italy, Spain, France and Germany; from these to Poland, Russia and eastern Europe generally, ancient Pharisaism has wandered.

I used to think I preferred getting old to the alternative, but now I'm not sure. Sometimes the momotony of bingo and sing-alongs and ancient dusty people parked in the hallway in wheelchairs makes me long for death. Particularly when I rememver that I'm one of the ancient dusty people, filed away like some worthless tchotchke.

We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient genes with us. If you could figure out how to turn those on, you could resurrect ancient characteristics from our ancestors.

All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.

Civilizations fall because the people inside the Sanctuary throw open the gates.

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened thousands of years ago. The history of making war with biological weapons begins in mythology, in ancient oral traditions that preserved records of actual events and ideas of the era before the invention of written histories.

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.

I couldn’t miss Percy’s fifteenth birthday,” Poseidon said. “Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!” "That’s true,” Paul said. “I used to teach ancient history.” Poseidon’s eyes twinkled. “That’s me. Ancient history.

It should not surprise us that there must be other civilizations in our galaxy and throughout the entire universe.

Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy: David Gemmell, Raymond E. Feist. It's a nice escape from the world. As much as I do love real-life stories, they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt.

In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.

Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of us to the root of existence, that ancient thing unfurling and resisting and grappling, desperately, for a foothold, a way to stay here, breathe, keep going.

Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.

Think about what would happen if Indiana Jones and Google Earth had a love child. I use high-resolution and NASA satellites and look for subtle differences on the surface of the earth that locate buried ancient pyramids and towns and ancient tombs, which we then go and excavate.

The Met is such a powerful place for me because it's a natural connection between the ancient world and the modern world. And when you're dealing with ancient mythology, trying to put a modern spin on it, you really can't do much better than to call on the Met.

We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and ... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.

We living things are a late outgrowth of the metabolism of our galaxy. The carbon that enters into our composition was cooked in a remote past in a dying star. The waters of ancient seas set the pattern of ions in our blood. The ancient atmospheres moulded our metabolism.

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.

Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations.

It was their intention to start twelve new civilizations similar to Atlantis in these locations.

We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

The whole of ancient astrology owed its origin to conversation with the cosmic intelligences. But by the time of the first centuries after the rise of Christianity, ancient astrology - that is to say, conversation with cosmic intelligences - was a thing of the past.

If the European Union wants to be an address where civilizations meet, it must take Turkey in.

But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.

The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens.

The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future.

So an ancient once said, "Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life". Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles. Without hindrances the mind that seeks enlightenment may be burnt out. So an ancient once said, "Attain deliverance in disturbances".

Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.

When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.

Getting access to diverse civilizations should be easy, and languages are the gateway to that.

In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.

One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies.

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

The key strengths of civilizations are also their central weaknesses. You can see that from the fact that the golden ages of civilizations are very often right before the collapse. The Renaissance in Italy was very much like the Classic Maya. The apogee was the collapse. The Golden Age of Greece was the same thing. We see this pattern repeated continuously, and it is one that should make us nervous. I just heard Bill Gates say that we are living in the greatest time in history. Now you can understand why Bill Gates would think that, but even if he is right, that is an ominous thing to say.

Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?

If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to figure out the composition of ancient pots. You have to be able to study human remains. You need to be able to do computer processing and, in some cases, computer programming.

When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.