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Last updated on September 20, 2024.
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks
Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.
The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks.
Greeks are notorious for their potions. I wouldn't say I've used Windex, but there are so many tricks that have been handed down to me.
The Greeks have snatched up their spears.
They have pointed the helms of their ships
Toward the bulwarks of Troy.
A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.
For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods.
Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.
We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.
If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.
If God gives you gifts you must use them to justify your life. It is what the Greeks called divine discontent that drives you.
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness.
Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.
Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
The Greeks said the artist doesn't actually have to travel and look around. You stay where God has put you, and you dig as deep as you can. This is what I've done.
Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true.
How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.
Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.
The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.
The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear.
The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.
Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.
I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.
Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.
The technological revolution is itself a direct descendant of the Ancient Greeks' historia, and the web is populated by young people who want to dive into the past.
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.
The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.
We're living in extraordinary times, all the time. The issues that assail us are perennial. They haven't changed since the Greeks picked up a pen.
By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.
Who lent the Greeks the most money? It was German banks, and for a long time, they were profiting from it quite nicely.
As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."
You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"
The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded by the poems passing under the name of Homer.
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.
The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.
The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.
In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.
The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.
I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.
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.
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing
We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.
The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were right.
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.
To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.
Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.
Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.
We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
