Quotes about greek
greek humanity library
Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation. Carl Sagan
greek olive
Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes. Yotam Ottolenghi
greeks learned love shakespeare time
I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time. Daniel Woodrell
greek-poet love
Friends show their love in times of trouble. Euripides
greek tasks attention
The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human. Alain de Botton
greek-poet mother obedience parent success
Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation. Aeschylus
greek littles chickens
I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."] Augusten Burroughs
greek possibility impossibility
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. Aristotle
greek taught teacher
When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer. Alice Oswald
greek-poet man
The man who does ill must suffer ill.
greek-poet
Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
greek-poet spilt
What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?
greek-poet somehow trust
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
greek-poet grows teaches time
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
greek firsts mathematics
Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things. Alfred North Whitehead
greek educated persons
How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science. Albert Einstein
greek historical sake
For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death. Adolf Hitler
greek hillbilly orthodox tenor
You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church. Chris Hillman
greek-poet men nor prophet waits
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him. Sophocles
greek-poet
It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.
greek-poet
A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
greek-poet
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
greek-poet whoever
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
greek-poet man nature
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
greek-poet
I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
greek-poet justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
greek-philosopher
Let him that would move the world first move himself. Socrates
greek firsts life-is
The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either. Colin Quinn
greek travel
He was not like Greek fathers. He didn't tell us to get married. My father thought it was very important that we travel, learn languages, be educated.
greek
I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
greek-poet until
You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say. Aristophanes
greek-philosopher sun
The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them. Diogenes
greek-poet
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning. Horace