Edith Hamilton Quotes
Love cannot live where there is no trust.
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.
The mind knows only what lies near the heart.
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.
Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.
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.
When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.
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.
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.
When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.
The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.
No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.
Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
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.