The phrase "ancient questions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to inquiries or topics that have been pondered or debated throughout history.
Example: "Philosophers have long grappled with ancient questions about the nature of existence and the universe."
Alternatives: "timeless inquiries" or "age-old questions".
As the Greek crisis unfolds, these ancient questions are made painfully real.
"It is exactly where we should be going, using updated scientific methods to answer these ancient questions," Mark Pallen, a professor of microbial genomics at the University of Warwick, said.
Literate people — and, thanks to the printing press, there were more of these than ever before — were eager to hear from philosophers who could give new answers to the ancient questions.
But Stone has proceeded to concern himself with just those ancient questions, doing his level best to illuminate subtle propositions about the human predicament and those extreme paths that purport to lead the seeker up and out of it, knowing very well that a lot of educated people are going to think those propositions are strange.
Answers to these ancient questions emerge today in various areas of philosophy, including ethics (especially virtue ethics), feminist ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of education, and philosophy of literature.
Einstein's theory of relativity replied to these ancient questions with three startling predictions: that the Universe is expanding from a Big Bang; that black holes so distort space and time that time stops at their edges; and that a dark energy could be pulling space apart, sending galaxies forever beyond the edge of the visible Universe.
Scientists' desire to study human embryonic stem cells has raised this ancient question to new prominence.
Your book, How Much Is Enough?, asks the ancient question of what constitutes a "good life".
The Rev. Thomas Valenti, a Columbia chaplain, began with an ancient question from the Book of Job.
In "Rebirth Is Always Painful," Evan Peterson asks: Ancient question: when dead folks walk, do they know poetry?
"Evil" can help Americans think more clearly about an ancient question that is urgent in a new way.
