Quotes by category:Greek

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

visionaries greek art

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspi... by Jon Gordon

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine."

greek enthusiasm mean

Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm blanket as far as it covered the soul in torment, but it never quite covered everything.

Jonathan Franzen

greek soul self

Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances of similar composition and dissimilar properties isomeric, from the Greek ίσομερης (composed of equal parts).

Jons Jacob Berzelius

greek science ideas

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

greek beautiful men

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

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I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the i... by Joseph Boyden

I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.

tragedy greek ideas

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. by Jorge Luis Borges

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

Jorge Luis Borges

known states greek

You don't have to try to be contemporary. You are already contemporary. What one has in mythology is being evolved all the time. Personally, I think I can do with Greek and Old Norse mythology. For example, I don't think I stand in need of planes or of railways or of cars.

Jorge Luis Borges

car greek thinking

A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.

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All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of u... by Joseph Heller

All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.

alive greek thinking

Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - No... by Joseph Pilates

Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.

greek mind men

And when the book of Daniel was showed to him (Alexander the Great) wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended.

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There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I believe sleep is the sweetest state. You're dead, yet alive. There's no sensation so exquisite.

Joyce Carol Oates

greek sleep believe

The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.

Joseph Campbell

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I consider Greeks the Jews of the sea. by Julie Klausner

I consider Greeks the Jews of the sea.

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Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds its satisfaction in itself, apart from any attention to the advantages it may procure. Most thinkers would have agreed with Renan's verdict that the man who loves science for its fruits commits the worst of blasphemies against that divinity. The modern clercs have violently torn up this charter. They proclaim the intellectual functions are only respectable to the extent that they are bound up with the pursuit of concrete advantage.

greek attitude men

There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.

Julius Streicher

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I made 'Going Greek', which was a very sort of crappy fraternity... by Justin Zackham

I made 'Going Greek', which was a very sort of crappy fraternity comedy that I did back in 2000.

fraternity comedy greek

The eastern part of the Roman Empire spoke mostly Greek, and the western parts spoke mostly Latin. So very soon, you begin getting different emphases between the Eastern church and the Western church.

Justo L. Gonzalez

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