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The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.
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In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.
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Sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
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Responsibility was the price every man must pay for freedom. It was to be had on no other terms.
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What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with this as the foremost object ideas of freedom and self-reliance and service to the community were obscured to the point of disappearing.
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Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.
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To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit, which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.
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When I read educational articles it often seems to me that this important side of the matter, the purely personal side, is not emphasized enough; the fact that it is so much more agreeable and interesting to be an educated person than not. The sheer pleasure of being educated does not seem to be stressed.
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.
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So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but there is an uneasiness in the air, a realization that the individual is growing less easy to find; an idea, perhaps, of what standardization might become when the units are not machines, but human beings.
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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly — that and only that, is tragedy.
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Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is impossible that there ever should be unless we hold that the universe is made to the measure of the human mind, an assumption for which nothing in the past gives any warrant.
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Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.
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All things are at odds when God lets a thinker loose on this planet.
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The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
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They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.
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All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set to thought.
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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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