Jasper Griffin (1937–2019) Public Orator and Professor of Classical Literature
The Oxford History of the Classical World (with John Boardman and Oswyn Murray, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986) p. 3
“Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.”
Source: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V
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Magnus Björnstjerna (1779–1847) Swedish count and general (1779-1847)
Source: quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Tribute_to_Hinduism.html?id=G3AMAQAAMAAJ <br class="br">Context: ... "In a metaphysical point of view we fmd among the Hindus all the fundamental ideas of those vast systems which, regarded merely as the offspring offantasy, nevertheless inspire admiration on account of the boldness of flight and of the faculty of human mind to elevate itself to such remote ethereal regions. We find among them all the principles of Pantheism, Spinozism and Hegelianism, of God as being one with the universe; spiritual life of mankind; and of the return of the emanative sparks after death to their divine origin; of the uninterrupted alternation between life and death, which is nothing else but a transition between different modes of existence. All this we find among the philosophies of the Hindus exhibited as clearly as by our modem philosophers more than three thousand years since.
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Source: Nobel Address (1991)
Context: Preparing for my address I found in an old Russian encyclopedia a definition of "peace" as a "commune" — the traditional cell of Russian peasant life. I saw in that definition the people's profound understanding of peace as harmony, concord, mutual help, and cooperation.
This understanding is embodied in the canons of world religions and in the works of philosophers from antiquity to our time.
“The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
25 May 1843
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
Variant: The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
“The age of antiquity is the youth of the world.”
Francis Bacon book The Advancement of Learning
The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book I, v, 8
(la) Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi.
Context: The age of antiquity is the youth of the world. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.
“There is an antique gem, on which her brow
Retains its graven beauty even now.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Erinna
The Golden Violet (1827)
“804. Antiquity is not always a Mark of Verity.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Our stockpile of antiquity grows constantly”
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"Census"
Poems New and Collected (1998), No End of Fun (1967)
Context: Our stockpile of antiquity grows constantly,
it's overflowing,
reckless squatters jostle for a place in history,
hordes of sword fodder,
Hector's nameless extras, no less brave than he,
thousands upon thousands of singular faces,
each the first and last for all time,
in each a pair of inimitable eyes.
How easy it was to live not knowing this,
so sentimental, so spacious.
Erich Auerbach Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Source: Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946), p. 45