antiquity quotes

Martin Luther†was enforced to awake all antiquityand to call former times to his succour to make a party against the present time, so that the ancient authors both in divinityand in humanity which had long time slept in libraries began generally to be read and revolved.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.1.

Woebetidethemanwhogoestoantiquity for thestudyof anything other than ideal art, logic and general method!

- Charles Baudelaire
c.1860  Letter, published in The Painter of Modern Life (1863).

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

- Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
  Coningsby, bk.2, ch.5.

Antiquite  . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe"  tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche  d and boring.

- Gustave Flaubert
Bouvard et Pe  cuchet avec un choix des sce  narios, du Sottisier, L'Album de la Marquise et Le Dictionnaire des ide  es re c° ues. (published1881, translated by Geoffrey Wall,1994).

Among the smaller islands there is one of fair size that is now called the Isle of Man† There was a great controversy in antiquity concerning the question: to which of the two countries should the island properly belong? Eventually, however, the matter was settled. All agreed that since it allowed poisonous reptiles to live in it, it should belong to Britain.

-Gerald of Wales also called Giraldus Cambrensis
  The History and Topography of Ireland, pt.2 (translated by John  J O'Meara,1951).

   I have now reached the point where I can look over the great art of antiquityand its Renaissance.But, for myself, I cannot find anyartistic connection with ourown times. And to want to create something outside of one's own age strikes me as suspect.

- Paul Klee
^2  The Diaries of Paul Klee1898^1918, entry 294.