Art & Creativity Sayings

21 sayings found from the Ancient era from 21 authors

The uncarved block, though small, is nowhere in the world inferior. If princes and kings could but hold on to it, all creatures would submit to them.

— Laozi c. 6th-4th century BCE
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Who created light and darkness? Who created sleep and waking?

— Zoroaster c. 1500-1000 BCE
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Don't eat your heart.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE (interpreted 3rd century CE)
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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

— Hippocrates c. 460-370 BCE
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Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

— Homer c. 8th Century BCE
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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

— Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) c. 5th century BCE
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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

— Saint Paul c. 55-57 CE
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A point is that which has no part.

— Euclid c. 300 BCE
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The Earth is not the center of everything, but it is a significant part of the cosmos.

— Eratosthenes c. 250 BCE
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My beauty is my weapon.

— Cleopatra c. 50-30 BCE
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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

— Augustus Caesar 14 CE
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I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those that were of no use.

— Qin Shi Huang 213 BCE
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Imagine that you have died and your life has come to an end. Now think about the life you wish you had lived. Live that life now.

— Marcus Aurelius c. 161-180 AD
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We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

— Seneca c. 65 AD
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What does not transmit light creates darkness.

— Epictetus c. 108 AD (approximate)
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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

— Sun Tzu c. 5th century BC
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

— Diogenes c. 350 BCE
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The greatest music has no sound; the greatest form has no shape.

— Zhuangzi c. 4th century BCE
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The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

— Mencius c. 4th-3rd century BCE
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

— Epicurus 3rd century BCE
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