Quotes about greek
greek-poet
I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow. Sophocles
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 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. Aeschylus
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 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
greeks learned love shakespeare time
I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time. Daniel Woodrell
greek olive
Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes. Yotam Ottolenghi
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 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 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 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 hollywood flourishing
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. Alistair Cooke
greek philosopher forget
Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously. Allan Bloom
greek lasts hey
Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek. Ann Brashares
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 literature language
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. Anne Rice
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 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 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
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
Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are. Anne Bradstreet
greek jimmy lose maybe might odds south
There is the odds factor. Maybe Jimmy the Greek could tell you that. If I play South Brunswick 10 times, I might lose five.
greek history involves language period share
Before Latin, there is a period which Greek and Slavic share in common. So this involves the history of language families, as and when relevant. Ferdinand de Saussure