Quotes about greek
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 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.
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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 free-will boundaries
Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly. Albert Camus
greek humanity pandoras-box
From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.
greek degrees certain
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. Donald Kagan
greek today proof
There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today. Andrew Wiles
greek becoming might
Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate. Anaxagoras
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Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are. Anne Bradstreet
greek literature language
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. Anne Rice
greek acting different
(Greek) Theater started off and used masks and Kabuki, in the East, they used mask-work. And then, Commedia dell'arte in Italy and then, you know, we're part of an acting tradition and, and performance capture is no different. Andy Serkis
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-philosopher sun
The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them. Diogenes
greek-poet shall
If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much. Hesiod
greek-poet
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning. Horace
greek-poet man
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
greek-poet struggle
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
greek-poet time
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
greek-poet poems poetry written
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
greek-poet venture
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
greek-poet
I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
greek-poet hour rustic waits
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
greek-poet
In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
greek-poet stake
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
greek stories
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament. Ray Bradbury
greek-philosopher men
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. Epictetus
greek grew mythology
I grew up being very interested in Greek mythology because my mum read to my sister and I. Isabel Lucas
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-poet
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
greek ancient-greek ancient
The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences. John Dewey