Edith Hamilton - Life Quotes

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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.

Edith Hamilton
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.

Edith Hamilton
Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

Edith Hamilton
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.

Edith Hamilton
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.

Edith Hamilton
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is to be educated.

Edith Hamilton
He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

Edith Hamilton
[Happiness is] The exercise of vital powers, along lines of excellence, in a life affording them scope.

Edith Hamilton
He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great adversary suffices, and who can dispense with success. Life for him was an adventure, perilous indeed, but men are not made for safe havens. The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.

Edith Hamilton