Edith Hamilton - Men Quotes

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For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

Edith Hamilton

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

Edith Hamilton

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

Edith Hamilton

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom.... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

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

Fundamental to everything the [ancient] Greeks achieved was their conviction that good for humanity was possible only if men were free, body, mind, and spirit, and if each man limited his own freedom. A good state or work of art or piece of thinking was possible only through the self-mastery of the free individual, self-government.

Edith Hamilton