Edith Hamilton Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

  Edith Hamilton

  Freedom, Responsibility, Libertarian Party

  Edith Hamilton (1964). “The Ever-Present Past”

• None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

  Edith Hamilton

  Pain, Writing, Tragedy

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

• A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

  Edith Hamilton

  Real, Writing, People

  Edith Hamilton (1957). “The Roman Way to Western Civilization”

• Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

  Edith Hamilton

  Men, Animal, Mind

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

• 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

  Father, Mind, Generations

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

• A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

  Edith Hamilton

  Real, Book, People

  Edith Hamilton (1957). “The Roman Way to Western Civilization”

• ... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.

  Edith Hamilton

  Thinking, People, Literature

  Edith Hamilton (1964). “The Ever-Present Past”

• Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

  Edith Hamilton

  Nature, Literature, Facts

  The Roman Way Comedy's Mirror

• When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

  Edith Hamilton

  Mind, Literature, Facts

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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