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There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.
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They [the Greeks] were the first Westerners; the spirit of the West, the modern spirtit, is a Greek discovery.
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No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
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Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken.
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The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.
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None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.
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Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
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The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind.
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The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
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It is by our power to suffer, above all, that we are of more value than the sparrows.
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The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest, where all human things... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.
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Clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.
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Athens had reached the point of rejecting independence, and the freedom she now wanted was freedom from responsibility.
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Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
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He drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek and make Hell grant what Love did seek.
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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
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One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead.... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth; but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.
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The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
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It's not hard work which is dreary; it is superficial work.
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Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.
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Great literature, past or present, is the expression of great knowledge of the human heart; great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within...
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A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.
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The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
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Pain is the most individualizing thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization comes only when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself. Only individuals can suffer.
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Edith Hamilton
Born:
August 12, 1867
Died:
May 31, 1963
(aged 95)
Bio:
Edith Hamilton was an American educator and author who was "recognized as the greatest woman Classicist". She was sixty-two years old when The Greek Way, her first book, was published in 1930.
Known for:
Mythology (1942)
The Greek way (1930)
The echo of Greece (1957)
Spokesmen for God (1949)
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