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“To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.”

Mean Said Ends Son Birth Ancient Nobility

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

“[On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.”

Ifs Men Giving Wells Art Religion Religious Dying Figures Birth Crosses Ancient Our Time Life And Death Love Life Dominant Fear Of Death Unreasonable Venus Giving Birth

Author:Riane Eisler

“Sir, the year growing ancient, Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' season Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors, Which some call nature's bastards.”

Years Growing Flower Birth Summer Seasons Winter Ancient Trembling Carnations

Book:The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works

Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works

“Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.”

“Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul is ancient, the stuff of stars.”

Made Soul Philosophy Body Form Individual Stars Stuff Teach Birth Ancient Esoteric

Book:Dreams of Isis: A Woman's Spiritual Sojourn

Source: Dreams of Isis: A Woman's Spiritual Sojourn

“Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very primal, but it's also about profound things, the very nature of life and death and birth - about, essentially, a man who is resisting the most irresistible fact of all, that we will be shuffling off this mortal coil.”

Men Feels Kind Facts Stories Form Birth Profound Ancient Tales Traditional Mortals Appeals Life And Death Irresistible Primal Resisting Shuffling

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“Interspirituality is the world music of religion; borrowing, fusing, blending and bouncing rhythms and riffs off one another not to create a homogenized spirituality, but to birth a radical new sound embedded in the ancient and timeless silence. This doesn't impact or deepen my life-it is my life.”

World Spirituality Sound Silence Birth Impact Ancient Rhythm Radical Timeless Embedded Borrowing World Music

Author:Rami M. Shapiro

“As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus. The goddesses and ancient subjects he chose represented virtues which were meant to inspire people. Then he went through a dark phase when he was listening to the sermons of Savonarola, who preached against the worldly pleasures of the Renaissance. But Botticelli's works live on, inspiring people to this day. Five hundred years after his death, he still has thousands of fans!”

“Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.”

Men Giving Years Hard Found Born Strange Birth Forgiving Fruit Ancient Protest Hard Things Through The Years Matriarchs

Author:Lillian Smith

“Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.”

Bigs Remember Universe Next Watches Television Birth Percent Dancing Ancient Complaining Tunes Next Time Bangs Static Remnants

Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light which now disputes with Mother Night her ancient rank and space, and yet cannot succeed; no matter how it struggles, it sticks to matter and can't get free. Light flows from substance, makes it beautiful.”

Firsts Matter Light Beautiful Mother Night Space Darkness Struggle Birth Succeed Flow Sticks Ancient Substance Disputes Mother Night Supercilious

Book:Goethe's Faust

Source: Goethe's Faust