There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony. Edith Hamilton More Quotes by Edith Hamilton More Quotes From Edith Hamilton None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught. Edith Hamilton wicked faults When I read educational articles it often seems to me that this important side of the matter, the purely personal side, is not emphasized enough; the fact that it is so much more agreeable and interesting to be an educated person than not. The sheer pleasure of being educated does not seem to be stressed. Edith Hamilton stressed education interesting Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed. Edith Hamilton love civilization art though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience. Edith Hamilton life-changing lessons book 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. Edith Hamilton generations mind father Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three Edith Hamilton three knows two The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique. Edith Hamilton mirrors unique people The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next. Edith Hamilton orthodoxy next generations A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought. Edith Hamilton fossils light creative The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure. Edith Hamilton intense events suffering 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. Edith Hamilton mad teaching running The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory. Edith Hamilton fullness-of-life hazards victory They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world. Edith Hamilton greek discovery world Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history. Edith Hamilton mark age said 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. Edith Hamilton greek mind firsts The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium. Edith Hamilton excellence greek mind No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful. Edith Hamilton effort beautiful facts A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait. Edith Hamilton exaggeration tendencies traits The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower. Edith Hamilton cutting flower science Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche) Edith Hamilton broken soul mean
