Anacronico Quotes & Sayings

The ancient Greeks and Romans were comfortable with any number of deities and were quite open to allowing conquered nations to continue to worship in whatever ways they saw fit, as long as they didn't mind having an emperor who required taxes and tributes. — Jay Parini

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom. — Albert Einstein

Little by little over the following decade, the Jewish sect founded by a group of rural Galileans morphed into a religion of urbanized Greek speakers. No longer bound by the confines of the Temple and the Jewish religion, the Hellenist preachers began to gradually shed Jesus's message of its nationalistic concerns, transforming it into a universal calling that would be more appealing to those living in a Graeco-Roman milieu. In doing so, they unchained themselves from the strictures of Jewish law, until it ceased to have any primacy. Jesus did not come to fulfill the law, the Hellenists argued. He came to abolish it. Jesus's condemnation was not of the priests who defiled the Temple with their wealth and hypocrisy. His condemnation was of the Temple itself. — Reza Aslan

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius. — James Russell Lowell

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk? — Leos Carax

I still love a lot of the guys who just paint. — Bill Sienkiewicz

A bird sings in the morning, an owl hoots at night ... it's still a bloody bird. — Oliver Reed