Numa's Quotes

#1. The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa's temple at Rome.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

#3. History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

#4. Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

David Abram

#5. When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power.

Livy

#6. Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

Marquis De Sade

#7. I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.

Emma Watson

#8. History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

#9. To be a plain means to die for a mountain; to be a mountain means to die for a plain! Thus, to kill a mountain, make it plain; to kill a plain, make it mountain!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. Secondly, I continued my education in a more important way,
through the observation of everyone around me,
because nothing is more important to learn in life than
the interaction of a human being with another human being.

Marcus Sedgwick

#11. History is and should be a science.

Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

#12. I often surprise myself. You can't plan some shots that go in, not unless you're on marijuana, and the only grass I'm partial to is Wimbledon's.

Rod Laver

#13. Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de

Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

#14. Don't speak thoughtlessly.
Don't worry unnecessarily.
Don't work half-heartedly.
Don't spend recklessly.
Don't give begrudgingly.
Don't act self-centeredly.
Don't live short-sightedly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. You should have mechanisms of communication, like faxes, which are obviously getting removed from offices because nobody uses them anymore. Faxes are great when e-mail doesn't work. I wouldn't be throwing them away.

Mikko Hypponen